On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:59:09 +0000, Don Montague <rootsweb.only@virgin.net> wrote: >At 00:28 10/02/2007, Dennis wrote: > >>On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:09:40 +0000, Don Montague >><rootsweb.only@virgin.net> wrote: >> >> >Please, how do I set up a search for all the women who married, for >> >example, BLAKEWAYs in my database? I can find/list all their >> >husbands, but if I want to find someone whose married name is Betty >> >Blakeway when I don't know which of 75 BLAKEWAYs she married, how do >> >I set up the search? >> >>Do you have GenViewer? >> >>If not, the best I can suggest is that you go to the Index tab and >>customize it so that you display all marriages (1st, 2nd, 3rd). Then >>sort the view by surname. Then go to BLAKEWAY and just eyeball the >>marriages for a Betty. > >Thanks, Dennis, but in the case of several married names I might have >to visually search through more than 500 lines in the Index view, >most with no spouses. If we could sort on any column in the Index >View in Legacy, my cup would run over - but we can't, yet. > >Contrast this with Generations, which has "Married Name" "Is/Is Not/ >Contains/ Doesn't contains/Starts with" as pull down search criteria, >and then enables one to view or print a list with five columns, two >for first & last names of the people found and three more with >customised contents. That is why I suggested GenViewer. I use it for some searches that Legacy can't handle. Since I also have MS Access I can roll my own if I have to. -- Dennis Kowallek kowallek@iglou.com ******************

I'm a little confused by your comment about searching on any field in index. If you just put the cursor in the given name box on top, they sort by given name. How many Betty's can you possibly have in your database! ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Kowallek Date: Saturday, February 10, 2007 7:48 am Subject: Re: [LEGACY] Searching for married women To: LEGACY@rootsweb.com > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:59:09 +0000, Don Montague > wrote: > > >At 00:28 10/02/2007, Dennis wrote: > > > >>On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:09:40 +0000, Don Montague > >> wrote: > >> > >> >Please, how do I set up a search for all the women who > married, for > >> >example, BLAKEWAYs in my database? I can find/list all their > >> >husbands, but if I want to find someone whose married name > is Betty > >> >Blakeway when I don't know which of 75 BLAKEWAYs she > married, how do > >> >I set up the search? > >> > >>Do you have GenViewer? > >> > >>If not, the best I can suggest is that you go to the Index tab and > >>customize it so that you display all marriages (1st, 2nd, > 3rd). Then > >>sort the view by surname. Then go to BLAKEWAY and just eyeball the > >>marriages for a Betty. > > > >Thanks, Dennis, but in the case of several married names I > might have > >to visually search through more than 500 lines in the Index > view, > >most with no spouses. If we could sort on any column in the > Index > >View in Legacy, my cup would run over - but we can't, yet. > > > >Contrast this with Generations, which has "Married Name" "Is/Is > Not/ > >Contains/ Doesn't contains/Starts with" as pull down search > criteria, > >and then enables one to view or print a list with five columns, > two > >for first & last names of the people found and three more with > >customised contents. > > That is why I suggested GenViewer. I use it for some searches that > Legacy can't handle. Since I also have MS Access I can roll my > own if I > have to. > > -- > > Dennis Kowallek > kowallek@iglou.com > > ****************** > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEGACY- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

At 20:58 10/02/2007, you wrote: >I'm a little confused by your comment about searching on any field >in index. If you just put the cursor in the given name box on top, >they sort by given name. How many Betty's can you possibly have in >your database! Well not all that many, but I do have 797 Elizabeth's and 964 Jean/Jane's. Etc. And, with respect, I wrote "sort on any field" not search . . . Cheers Don -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.33/678 - Release Date: 09/02/2007 16:06