Census records: search for parents' birth place
I am trying to pull some data from the 1910 US population census for my research on immigration to Montana from your website.
The following query yields 0 results:
Residence: “Montana, USA”
Birth: “United States”
Father’s Birthplace: “Switzerland”
I get the same result when I use Mother’s Birthplace = “Switzerland.”
In fact, any search involving the field father’s or mother’s birthplace returns zero results. This is strange because both fields on parents' birthplace are indexed when you look at individual records.
Answers
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@LucaCriscione Perhaps you could share the Person ID for your Father and we will see if we can get different results.
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As I understand the question, the poster is not researching one individual but is looking for a set of people matching the parameters.
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Not sure you can do what you want on FamilySearch. The Ancestry search engine allows for specifying the Father's birth place and/or Mother's birth place. Anyone seen that as a capability on FamilySearch?
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Thanks for looking into this, everyone!
That's right, the Ancestry search engine produces results with the parents' birthplace fields, but ancestry hardly lets you export useful data.
The search field s exist in family search aswell, the queries just don't return any results.
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@LucaCriscione I can see the dilemma. I tried to search for Fathers Birth Place Switzerland in 1910 1920 1930 Census with no other search terms, same result. Nothing.
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