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From: "Janis Rodriguez" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Help with Filter - Death Group - Date - Contains '?'
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 21:24:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200403100127.i2A1RRR0030010@cepheus.email.starband.net>


Thanks, Wendall. I do not think I explained the steps I took well enough.
I tried the search you suggested before contacting the list and thought I
had found them all. But when I did the second, double search detailed in my
memo, it found others with just an aft 1880 date as well as the others with
1880. An EXACTLY search cannot find all the "aft 1880" where I put in the
full enumeration date.

I was hoping for a way to use the contains or Contains '?' operator and just
plug in 1880, etc. without all the other steps

Thanks for your help though.

Jan



-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell H. Wilcox [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:27 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Help with Filter - Death Group - Date - Contains '?'


When I use the PE filter, I use Death Group - Date - is exactly - AFTER 1880
The only entries that show are those you said you wanted.

Wendell


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janis Rodriguez [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:23 PM
> To:
> Subject: [TMG] Help with Filter - Death Group - Date - Contains '?'
>
> I'm trying to clean up several death tags I stupidly added based on census
> data. These tags include a date of "aft 1880" or "after" the enumeration
> date for the census.
>
> I have been trying to locate people who have a death tag which says "after
> 1880", or just contains 1880. I tried to filter the PE but the operator
> {Contains} or {Includes} with the corresponding blank is not available.
> The
> operator {Contains '?'} is available but I do not know how to get it to
> allow me to fill in the '?' part of the filter. I hope I'm missing
> something. I saved the search and then tried running it but the universe
> is
> 0 and it never lets me fill in the blank '?'!
>
> I did manage to come close by doing the following:
>
> Death Group Date Comes after 1879 and
> Death Group Date Does not come after 1880
>
> With the above filter I think I have found most of the offending tags and
> deleted those which had the corresponding 1880 Cen tag, and used this
> opportunity to add the person as a witness to a household whose census was
> not yet linked to all family members. I will need to go back and do some
> digging on several families where I failed to cite the census in anyway,
> just aft 1860 or aft 1870. I'd like to be able to find them more quickly
> next time!
>
> I am certain I must be missing something basic but I would appreciate it
> if
> someone could point out the missing step!
>
> Thanks for your help!!
> Jan
>
> Janis Parkison Rodriguez
>
>
>
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