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From: "Gary Templeman" <>
Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Can one Search on first names
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:52:57 -0800
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By using the restriction of "matches" you will exclude all Sandras that also
have middle names entered. For example, I did the same search looking for my
first name. If I put in matches Gary I got zero returns. If I enteredGary
Robert I received one - me. My guess is that you need to use "contains"
rather than "matches".

Gary Templeman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlotte Geier" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: [PAF-5] Can one Search on first names


> 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
>
> Richard Rands wrote:
>
> > Yes there is.
> > Search>Advanced Focus/Filter>Field Filter Define>Name>Given Names
> > Only> Contains> "the first name"
> >
> > Richard Rands
> >
> >
> > At 08:59 AM 3/1/2005 -0700, Charlotte Geier wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know of a way to search in PAF for an individual by the
> >> first names? I'm particularly interested in being able to locate a
> >> female within the database; but say for instance, I have forgotten
> >> her married name and her maiden name, yet easily recall her given name.
> >> (This could be true for a man as well, but compounded with married
> >> females.) Is there a simple method to search on the first name only?
> >
> >
>
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