Using 'Find' to locate place and year of event

[ByronSpoon]

Re: Using 'Find' to locate place and year of event

...Do a simple find on the 1851 census. Once found, MARK them. Now do a compound search for those marked records and for the county in question. This process of using only the marked records precludes any other census years.

Hmmmm, I don’t believe your approach makes any difference. I find that my results are the same as before.

Both search approaches will find persons who have matching date and place occurrences for census events, even if the matching date and place are found in different census occurrences for the person. However, Reunion is unable to force the additional condition that the matching date and place terms happen only within the same census occurrence.

Can Reunion tech support join in and explain what Reunion can and cannot do regarding this type of search?

[suzivegemite]

Re: Using 'Find' to locate place and year of event

Arnold,

I'm afraid you are quite mistaken.

I did as you said, and only searched on 1851 census, I got 168 results of which only 81 were for the parameter that I set! Go figure! The rest were for the 1841 Census.
I then marked all 81 that were for the 1851 census and unmarked the ones that said 1841 census. Then did a 'Find' on the marked people only, for census place contains Durham.

I achieved exactly the same result as before. 12 said Durham 1 said Hampshire.

The only way to achieve the result I want is to redo all censuses for every census year for several thousand people. Eg. Event called 1851 Census which will in turn create a 1851 Census Place. This is not going to happen.

Hindsight is such a lovely thing.

If one of you clever people figure out another way to achieve the result I'm looking for, please don't keep it to yourself.......I'm all ears!

Sue

[Kaye Saunders]

Re: Using 'Find' to locate place and year of event

After looking at your images I see that you have all the information entered as an event named "Census" and then enter the year and the place whereas I enter mine as a note and label it "1841 Census" or "1861 Census" or whatever, and so when I want to find those living in Faringdon in the 1861 Census I can just state

Find "1861 Census" Contains "Faringdon"

Of course, the way we enter our information is all a matter of personal choice and there is no correct way.

Edited to add: I see Sue that you have found the way I do it and I can completely understand your unwillingness to do so. I am venturing that way though as I was one of the idiots who when I started 35 years ago thought I didn't need to source things "as I would remember everything" :-) and so now I'm going through all mine and re-entering all my data and sources for easier management in the future.

[Dennis J. Cunniff]

Re: Using 'Find' to locate place and year of event

If one of you clever people figure out another way to achieve the result I'm looking for, please don't keep it to yourself.......I'm all ears!

Well, you could always fall back on searching a GEDCOM. You'd export a GEDCOM and search it for :

1 CENS
2 DATE 1851
2 PLAC Durham

which wouldn't match
1 CENS
2 DATE 1861
2 PLAC Durham

or
1 CENS
2 DATE 1851
2 PLAC Wolverhampton

even if other census events for the same person were present.

I suppose you could use the search to create a FLAG for each person where it's found, then reimport the GEDCOM and search for the flag, but that's discouraged because you may lose some info in the process.