Search tools

Question

Is there a way to limit searches to profiles with a particular birthplace? Date ranges? Profiles managed by me?

Answer 1

At the bottom of the normal search page you can add filters for birth and death location, father and mother's name and lots of others.

Of course you have to rely on those fields being completed by others, and beware - the search is based upon AND, so all criteria from search has to match

e.g. born in certain place AND mother's name is certain name

Answer 2

I expect you already know that you can view the profiles managed by you by looking at your Watchlist.  The ones with the little letter 'M' next to them are managed by you; the others, you are on the Trusted List for.

Comments

Yes. Thank you. Problem is, my watchlist is quite large. Is there a way to filter my watchlist? Specifically, I need to locate a person not in my list of immediate ancestors of whom I know the last name, Finck, and the place of birth, Winnenden, Wuerttemberg. The immediate application is that I found a presumed relative in Philadelphia and want to connect him to the tree. I know his father (in Winnenden), but connecting him has been harder than I thought, because some church books seem to be missing on ancestry.com.

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Hi Gus. The WikiTree Browser Extension Table Filters feature allows you to filter tables including your watchlist, with selection based on substrings of name or birth location.

Answer 3

I use the search feature in Wikitree, but then I use the browser search "Find By" to find what I'm looking for in the list. I can search by place, birth year, etc., and I can run through a large list to find what I'm looking for fairly quickly.