How to create a list of persons with a specific surname who are not linked to any parents

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Permalink Reply by Ron Ferguson on September 3, 2012 at 8:58am

I am not absolutely sure this will find all of them!

Search>Find>Miscellaneous; check radio button "Linked individuals with no parents"

Create List

On the new screen use Search>Find to take you back to the Miscellaneous Screen and check radio button "Check unlinked individuals". Now check radio button "Add results to existing list"

Create List.

Permalink Reply by Cliff Gittens on September 3, 2012 at 6:14pm

Ron,

Thanks for the suggestion.  Although the suggestion did not fully satisfy my requirement it did provide a good starting point.  Here's what I did:

Produced a list of "Linked individuals with no parents" using Search/Find/Miscellaneous.  The full list included some 3,104 individuals.

Then used the Search/Find/Detailed Search with the criteria

Look for = Individual

Where to look = Surname

How to look = Equal to

What to look for = Best

The trick in this step was to use the radio button on the bottom of the screen labeled "Only search the Search List".  The new list that was created from the old list of 3,104 individuals now contained 56 individuals, with the surname Best who did not have any parents linked to them, which seemed about correct.

I am now in the process of looking through the list results.

Again, thanks for your assistance, it is appreciated.

Regards

Cliff Gittens

Surrey, BC, Canada

Permalink Reply by Ron Ferguson on September 4, 2012 at 2:25am

Glad that you are having some success. Is there a reason why you did not include a search for unlinked individuals as I suggested? I am not entirely certain, but it seems to me that this group of "islands" would not have parents either, although I did not test this, nor am I certain whether a single person with parents recorded would be classified as unlinked or not.

I should have added the bit about searching for a specific surname :-)

Permalink Reply by Cliff Gittens on September 4, 2012 at 8:18am

Hi Ron,

I was fairly sure that everyone in my BEST family research was entered into Legacy as either a husband and wife or a child with at least one parent.  I "assumed " that these would be defined as linked individuals, whereas a single person not linked to anyone would be an unlinked individual.  As I don't believe I have any unlinked individuals I skipped that portion of your suggestion.

What I will do after I finish analyzing the information that I have produced is run  a list using View/Tree Finder.  If I have any BEST family unlinked individuals they should show up in that report.

Again, thanks for you assistance.

Cliff Gittens

Surrey, BC, Canada

Permalink Reply by Ron Ferguson on September 4, 2012 at 10:14am

Thanks, Cliff, that clarifies it, I just wondered if my suggestion re islands had been proven incorrect.

Permalink Reply by Emiko Lanier on October 16, 2012 at 7:33am

I will have to try that. Which software do you use for that?