Need to search for people at certain places

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bakofoed
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Need to search for people at certain places

Post by bakofoed » Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:20 am

I desperately need to search for people at certain places. Logically this could be in the event places window. Eg. if I search for John Doe in USA I want to see all occurances and records of all John Does in USA....

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clive boyce
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Need to search for people at certain places

Post by clive boyce » Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:50 pm

Select INDEX (top left of main window), click to open People Index,
Select "Generate CSV" (bottom left of new window).
Then you can export data to a spreadsheet or database program and it will be easy to find any occurrences of names and places. Let me know how you get on.

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Post by bakofoed » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:33 am

hi Clive!
Thanx for the suggestion, but with 60.000 people in my database, this becomes a bit too overwhelming. The CSV generation time is too long, but I will of course not have to do this on a daily basis.
The problem with using excel is that I cannot sort both on birth places, probate places, marriage places and death places - and people&#39s names.
It would be much faster to use the "event places" pane.
And I need the event places pane to stay open until I close it, aswell.

But I will try the CSV solution the next time I need to search for some people at certain places.

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