Legacy Search Tip

Geoff Rasmussen

18 Oct 2007

Question from Linda:

I have two or three ancestors who were accused of being witches. I put this information in the general notes and now can’t remember who they were. Does anyone know of a way to "Search" the notes for the word "witch"?

Answer from Millennia:

Good question Linda. You could either examine each person’s notes in your entire database one-by-one (just kidding), or follow these steps:

Click on the Search menu and click Find (see image below), or just click Ctrl+F.

Click on the Detailed Search tab.

In the Look for Whom? column, select Female.

In the Where to Look column, select Notes-General.

In the How to Look column, select Contains.

In the What to look for column, type "witch" (without the quotes)

Click on the Create List button. The resulting Search List displays all persons who have the word "witch" in their General Notes.

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Comments (4)

I have been doing searches on Ancestry.com and have found some errors. Thanks to the “fuzzy” searching that is done, pointers to data that I need have been coming up, but the pointers should be fixed. Who do I contact to provide this information?

You might contact the Massachusetts Historical Society, New England Historical Society or Salem, Massachusetts. There is a store exclusively for witch books, memorabilia, etc. There was a movie on PBS many years ago titled: “Three Sovereigns for Sarah” This about 3 sisters accused of being witches (true story) and I am descended from one of the brothers of the 3 sisters. Good Luck. You also might check Census Records for the time period. You didn’t mention where they were living.

Chris, coming in version 7….

Is there a way to create a report or search for unsourced individuals? I would like to be able to print such a document out in order to maximize my search efforts.

MC
Mark Charles

17 years ago

I have been doing searches on Ancestry.com and have found some errors. Thanks to the “fuzzy” searching that is done, pointers to data that I need have been coming up, but the pointers should be fixed. Who do I contact to provide this information?
KW
Katherine Wilkinson

17 years ago

You might contact the Massachusetts Historical Society, New England Historical Society or Salem, Massachusetts. There is a store exclusively for witch books, memorabilia, etc. There was a movie on PBS many years ago titled: “Three Sovereigns for Sarah” This about 3 sisters accused of being witches (true story) and I am descended from one of the brothers of the 3 sisters. Good Luck. You also might check Census Records for the time period. You didn’t mention where they were living.
GR
Geoff Rasmussen

17 years ago

Chris, coming in version 7….
C
Chris

17 years ago

Is there a way to create a report or search for unsourced individuals? I would like to be able to print such a document out in order to maximize my search efforts.