This is a revised video for:
Question from the Cousin Russ Community
Question: Is there a good query language in any tools where you can query your family tree in a more advanced way?
"Give me all people where you have descendants born before 1900 and I have no source connected to it from the Census 1900"
Thanks to reader Karen Jaquish for pointing out that I had removed too many people from my search.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSgC6Kh-LVk&feature=share
Thank you, Cousin Russ! That filter function is great and I didn't even know it existed, much less how to use it, until you posted about it. Can't wait to try it.
ReplyDeleteGloria Carbaugh
ReplyDeleteand there are two ways to use the Filter In / Filter Out feature. This 2nd version today uses the Custom Report / Filter feature.
Russ
Having the report to refer to when you have more than a few people to work on seems really helpful.
ReplyDeleteGloria Carbaugh
ReplyDeleteYes, but the first Filter, from the People Workspace lets you focus on those you want to work with.
That why I did both ways.
Russ
Thanks, Russ! I really like that between the two videos you've shown a couple of different ways to use the filters to get to a target group of records in the file. Filters are a powerful tool that I know I don't use to the fullest and I appreciate seeing a few real life examples.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to trying the filter function both ways this morning and also seeing what else I can use it for. Thanks for continuing to make the videos! They are great learning tools.
ReplyDeleteMagnus Sälgö - as I work through such a list and don't find them in that census record, or what ever record you are looking for, I DO add that record to my ToDo list.
ReplyDeleteThen you can filter the ToDo list to like records.
I don't spend a lot of time looking IF I can't find that person in that Census Record, I move on, because I may find someone else in that same Census Record and will find that "missing" person.
Russ
Karen Jaquish - I am going to do another one today, just on my direct line,, which I DO use for records like this.
ReplyDeleteRuss
Gloria Carbaugh
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Your comments is why I will do these videos. It helps me sharpen my use of Family Tree Maker and I am willing to share that experience.
Russ
Cousin Russ...
ReplyDeleteWhat about using this idea for say a locality trip? for instance, marriages, wills, etc. Most courthouses give an idea of the time frame of their records (county established; fire destroyed records xxxx).
How might you go about that? I suspect it would require a few more steps, but this could be a VERY useful tool when beginning a "distant" research trip...
Deb Yarbrough
ReplyDeleteI have blogged about that before.
The blog post I did was for Cemeteries, but the same filter would work for other purposes.
In fact, I did one blog post about a Library visit, where I was not going to be able to take a computer, but wanted to have a list of people who might have had an event in that location.
Russ
Thanks Russ.. I am lucky in that my dad's family settled in the county where my siblings & mom still reside. There were a few years (1830-1870s) where dad's line lived in a different county, fortunately along my route of travel going to and from mom's house. I would try to create a list of people who..... (whatever the events---married in this county, are buried in this county, went to school here, etc) .I would typically pick ONE type of event, trying to focus my attention on one facility, one group of records and variants within them. I'd spent days organizing all of this and then would find that the repository I'd planned to visit was closed to visitors due to remodeling, or vacation, or school breaks... or the worse one had changed hours and was only open when I couldn't go. Course that was back in the pen & paper only days...
ReplyDeleteHaving the computer to "calculate" this, means I can sort for each type of record/event I'm thinking of working on. Then, put them in a three ring binder, and take them with me.
I'm also coming up (in my mind) with all kinds of "custom events/facts" like Find-a-Grave, marriage license, will record, etc to help with making sure I have FULL and complete records on each individual.
I can vouch for the helpfulness of searching for names of siblings when going through records already. My ggg grandparents were incorrectly identified on my gg grandparents marriage register entry. By searching the names of siblings, I believe I can make a good proof for what I believe are the correct names.
I've been afflicted with genealogy fever for over 30 years, and am just starting to have some great AHA moments. Ain't Technology great (when it works right)
THanks for the blogs.. Gonna go look up those older ones right now..
Deb