Search for keyword within Family Tree

LegacyUser

Benson said: Search for keyword within family tree Details/Notes/Sources/Memories/Ordinances.

E.g. I live in Philadelphia -- why can't I search my family tree for any instance of the word Philadelphia, to see what family members immigrated / mentioned that city, across any of the data attached to each personal record?

LegacyUser

Juli said: The family tree on FamilySearch is all one tree, and there's no good way to specify what part of the billions of profiles you want to search. The easiest solution is to use an offline family tree program. If you use one that can sync with FS, you don't even have to retype anything.

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: Of the three (Ancestral Quest, Legacy, and Roots Magic), I use Ancestral Quest. All three, even in their free versions, can download ancestral lines into a local database. The free versions have some limitations, but in most cases, offer what most users need and, give a user a change to try each out to see which approach they like the best.

I use Ancestral Quest and besides being able to have a very flexible name list, the advanced search can search a lot of different areas and be set up using common expressions in any combination.

I do not use either Roots Magic or Legacy, but I suspect they have similar abilities.

LegacyUser

JT said: One thing you can do:
1) Click your "Memories" tab at the VERY TOP menu (not just a memories tab for one person).
2) Click "Find".
3) Enter Philadelphia

Unfortunately it will just keep searching the entire Worldwide Family Tree for memories that mentioned the word Philadelphia. (I don't think it restricts to just your relatives within 15 generations)

LegacyUser

JT said: Which is in-congruent, because when you do the same and click "People" instead of "Find", it only shows people from your tree (memories within 15 generations). But for me it only shows 106 people, which is much less than my 15 generations of people with at least 1 memory. Strange again.