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Rosi

Rosi Report 15 Jul 2003 21:36

Hi Susan, If you click on Search on the lh side of the screen it comes up with a form - complete this with the surname of your choice - and click search or find- whatever. Then scroll down - the list will be revealed- or a 'sorry' message saying there are no matches at present. Hope this helps! My dawter had to explain the scroll down bit to me when first I tried it too! Rosi

Sue in Sx

Sue in Sx Report 15 Jul 2003 18:52

Someone explain PLEASE!!! - if I dont have the name in my tree and I go to search on the green bit at the left of the screen it asks for name, age, d.o.b etc. Just putting a surmame gets me nowhere £$&*% . Sue

Rosi

Rosi Report 15 Jul 2003 17:37

Thanks Jim, for catching on to what I was feebly attemting to say - about making an entry on the 'Trying to Find' board. We often blythly suggest to anyone who posts a t2f on the Guest, Tips or Members that they post on the T2F board, but it isn't that easy. And it isn't the same as putting a surname in 'search' either - useful though that facility certainly is. Rosi Colch. ESS

Unknown

Unknown Report 15 Jul 2003 14:12

You are right to point out that the search facility is available to see if a particular surname has any entries. You have, however, missed the point which Rosi was making. HOW TO POST AN ENTRY. If I am looking for Lord StJohn Coughalot. I have to put a spurious name in my tree before I can add a Trying to Find message. This is surely wrong. Jim

Andrea

Andrea Report 15 Jul 2003 12:12

Sorry you guys. I have known how to do the "search" thing for ages, but I thought that was too simple and that you knew about it already. I could have helped ages ago... next time I will reply anyway and I guess you can tell me you have already tried that method and got nowhere. It's better than leaving you stuck. Sorry....! Just for the record, you can also do it by just entering the surname and it will come up with all entries for this surname instead of just one particular forename. I use this quite often just to see if there are any with the surname I am searching that come from the right area. I have had a couple of hits this way too.

Christine

Christine Report 15 Jul 2003 01:48

Brilliant Jacky!! I've just tried it and it works - why didn't I think of this before??? Thanks for the tip Christine, Billingham

JackyJ1593

JackyJ1593 Report 14 Jul 2003 21:34

I have had no problems looking at surnames not in my tree. I use the search facility and type in a name I want to look at and it comes up. Jacky

Researching:
Keady, Kilkenny, New Ross, Fulham, Battersea, Clapham, Swaffham, Upton Upon Severn, St. Mary Cray

Unknown

Unknown Report 14 Jul 2003 21:12

I have complained about this for ages, but, like Agnes, No one wants to know. We should have access to the whole alphabetical list of surnames on the site, not just the ones in our own trees. Jim Gosport,HAM UK

Rosi

Rosi Report 14 Jul 2003 19:19

The Catch 22 with the Trying to Find board is that if you don't have at least one person with the name you are looking for in your tree, you cannot make an entry on the board. It is quite complex when you are a newbie to realise you have to make a false entry in your tree, bearing the name you require info. on, so that THEN you can ask on the T2F board. No wonder people put their 'Losts' in all the wrong places. Could entering on the T2F be made easier, please?