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From: "George Spooner" <>
Subject: Re: I.G.I.
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:28:51 +0800
References: <e3fn6.2788$GB4.14323@news11-gui.server.ntli.net>, <3a9dde88$0$9859@echo-01.iinet.net.au>, <na.a918b14a55.a40080lefev@argonet.co.uk>


Alec.
Do you get the 'No Matches' result with all searches?
Out of pure curiosity I did a search (as described previously) on your own surname. It came back with the following results:

Ancestral Files: 1351

IGI:
Africa 2
Asia 12
Britain 603
Caribbean 3
Europe 3390
Denmark 35
Germany 152
North America 3920
Ocean Islands 10
S.W. Pacific 11
Sweden 1
World Misc. 11

Pedigree Resource Files: 25+

Web Sites: 5

A total of 9509 records.
The Pedigree Resource Files were shown as "more than 25" but I was unable to access the remainder because the link didn't work.

Geo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "A Lefevre" <>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.britain
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: I.G.I.

<snip>
> I tried again on Thursday evening, before I read the above. Went through
> all combinations, no matches, until I tried the "All Sources". It showed one
> match. Trouble was the name it gave was nothing like the one I'd put in!
> Have to wait for it to be repaired. Glad I'm not alone.
>
> Alec Lefevre
>

"A Lefevre" <> wrote in message news:...
> In article <3a9dde88$0$>, "George Spooner"
> <> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > Select the first option, 'All Sources' at the left of the =
> > window.Enter the forename and surname (or just the surname) *only*, =
> > select 'All Countries', 'All Events' and 'Exact Spelling'. It probably =
> > works also if you just select 'IGI' as the source but I haven't tried =
> > that myself. It's the exact spelling selection that seems to do the =
> > trick but exact spelling doesn't work if you enter anything other than =
> > the above.
> > Geo.
> >
> I tried again on Thursday evening, before I read the above. Went through
> all combinations, no matches, until I tried the "All Sources". It showed one
> match. Trouble was the name it gave was nothing like the one I'd put in!
> Have to wait for it to be repaired. Glad I'm not alone.
>
> Alec Lefevre
>
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