Genealogy Chat

I've just put a big trying-to-find post in that forum, relating to someone with the surname Cheshire (with a reply, continuing the original post).

This was my first new-thread post in this category since the reorg -- in fact I'd only ever posted a new thread in it once before (back before replies in a thead were possible, so my continuation became a second "thread" that time.)

I'd like it to show up when someone searches the Trying To Find forum with the surname filter "Cheshire" on. That isn't happening.

I originally had given the post a title:

"JohnRogersCheshire/MaryEmmaHill 1860s-descendants"

with the surname Cheshire in the surname line.

I tried editing the title to the simple "Trying to find" with "Cheshire" in the surname line. No luck.

Does editing not work, so might I have to post it all over again, maybe, with the title "Trying to find" and "Cheshire" in the surname line?

The surname-filter function seems still to be working, for new posts, even where the title is something other than "Trying to find". A post was added to Trying To Find today, headed

"My Uncle Brian Wallace 1935 Sisters Mary Kate Ann"

When I add the surname filter "Wallace" and search the Trying To Find forum, that post turns up at the top (along with 2 other posts by the same person about the same thing in the last 4 days ...)

So why doesn't mine turn up at the top if I add the surname filter "Cheshire"??

Would starting over, with the subject Trying to find and the surname Cheshire, work?

I just had a look....I see what you mean.


I think I would cut and paste a new posting and leave out the Trying to find ...and just put John's name...or even just CHESHIRE as the title.


Gwyn

Heh, that's what I did the *first* time -- you're seeing the edited version. ;)

I've tried several different versions -- I think I'll try just no title + surname=Cheshire.

If that works, I'll delete the other; if not, I'll delete one randomly. ;)

I think that you should go through "surname summary" You will need the name in your tree.

Aha Jim -- that seems like a plan! When I do that and click on "add post", "Cheshire" is already entered in the "trying to find surname" line, so that may indeed be the trick.

When I get a bit of this work done I'll get on it. Thanks!

I doubt that GR is that, er, clever ;)

... but I'll tell ya, it sure does make googling for names virtually impossible! They were Cheshire, they lived in Cheshire ...

Not as bad as the Coke family members I'm desperate to find, though. The one who concerns me (husband of the sister of the wife of the Cheshire -- it's the two women who are in my family) changed his and his kids' name to McCock. Try googling that without the decency filter on. Don't bother googling it *with* the decency filter, of course ...

John -- it worked! Thanks very much, and now I know for future ref.