Did you click the "next" button under filtered lists to move on to the next name if you didn't put a check mark to "Show results only"? Or did you put a check mark in "Show results only" under the filtered lists? If you put a check mark there you should see all your "Sandra" names. Sandra McDonald >X-Message: #2 >Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:28:39 -0700 >From: Charlotte Geier <chargerfree@mindspring.com> >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <422621F7.9080709@mindspring.com> >Subject: Can one Search on first names >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; x-Spamnix=checked >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Richard Rands and Kathy Campbell both offered the Advanced Focus Filter >for given names containing the first name as a method to search for >someone whose given name one knows, but whose surname escapes memory. > >I have been back into PAF and tried this filter several times, and it does >not turn up the given name though I know it is in the database. I know >because I remembered the husband's name, and found my "missing person", >but the focus filter did not find her. I had it set to Advanced Focus >Filter->Relationship Filter = All, ->Define -> Field Filtering Name-> >Given Names Only -> matches ->Sandra. Out of a database of nearly 5400 >names, I got only ONE RETURN, and it was not the one I was looking for and >found in my alternate route through recalling her husband's name. But >what if I had not recalled her husband's name? > >Can someone explain to me why my search did not return ALL women with the >given name of Sandra? > >Thanks, > >Charlotte Geier