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March 2, 2020 edited September 28, 2020 in Suggest an Idea
Richard G Schillinger said: A question was posed to me and I don't have the answer. Question:Is it possible to find genealogical folders by the name of who submitted them? A Family member looking for files submitted by Leonardo Andrea, for instance.
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  • LegacyUser
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    March 2, 2020
    Juli said: If I'm understanding the question correctly, then I think the answer is "not by name, but."

    I presume you mean a submitted GEDCOM (Pedigree Resource File) filed under Genealogies. If you choose this from the Search menu, down toward the bottom there's a field titled "Submission ID". This is a hyphenated alphanumeric ID just like a PID on Family Tree. To figure out the right Submission ID, you need to find something in Genealogies that comes from that submission. Yeah, yeah, chicken and egg, but surely you know at least one name or relationship that was in the file, no?
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    March 2, 2020
    Richard G Schillinger said: I'm not sure what the questioner had in mind. I'll have to ask further, but I don't think she was referring to Gedcom, more likely entering new families in family search.
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    March 2, 2020
    gasmodels said: In Family Tree the only indication would be the contact name. Some individuals including myself use a contact name that is not indicative of my real name (I will not go into the reason for doing this). As far as I know there is not a way to search for all entries associated with a contact name so the only options available are to look at records that you are interested in knowing more information and to see contact names of individuals who have contributed or changed information for that record and then contact them either directly through contact information or with the internal messaging system. It is possible you will locate a distant cousin by this method since most users make changes to relatives and two persons interested in the same record are probably related.
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    March 2, 2020
    Richard G Schillinger said: Thank you. I guessed as much.
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