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How do I search my tree by Occupation

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James & Michaela

James & Michaela Report 11 Aug 2011 09:11

Hi All,

Does anybody know how I search my tree by occupation? I know I have somebody that worked on the railways but I cant for the life of me remember who! Ancestry have released the railway employment records.

Many thanks, Michaela

Janet

Janet Report 11 Aug 2011 09:17

...no... but its a good job for a rainy day....lol..-jl

mgnv

mgnv Report 11 Aug 2011 09:52

Download your tree as a gedcom - say it's called MyTree.ged. Make a copy of this file and rename it from Copy of MyTree.ged to MyTreeCopy.txt - you can now edit this text file with something like Word, Wordpad or Notepad, and use the built in Find function, probably under the Edit menu item. Although the preceding text will look slightly odd, you'll recognize the guy's name & d.o.b.

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 11 Aug 2011 10:05

mgnv, I just tryed it on a gedcom from an old file and its brill when i opend the file it opened as a text document in wordpad

Great tip thanks

Roy