Is their a way to search for Surnames by birth or death location, e.g. State, County, etc

Question

Is there a way to use birth or death locations in a search of profiles with a given last name?  Using Cemetery, event, etc Categories doesn't work because not all profiles have categories.  This would be a useful addition to WikiTree if it doesn't already exist.  Maybe it does exist and I have just not discovered it yet.

Answer 1

I use Wikitree+ for flexible searching. Currently searching "Moore Carolina" gives a result set of 3321 profiles.

Answer 2

Use Ancestry.com.Use Search all.

Comments

I want to search WikiTree, not Ancestry, so this doesn't help.

Answer 3

I have the same question.  It would be very useful for me to find a surname in a particular location.  Is there no way to do this?

Answer 4

Try this link:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:SearchPerson#text-search

You can find the main Search page in the drop-down menu under "Find." To the right on the search page are 4 parameters. Choose the link for "Text" or just scroll to the bottom of the page.

The search is conducted from a Google Custom Search page (it may give you some outside pages, as well as some ads at the top).

Also, searches may not always complete!

And it may not meet your needs!!

Answer 5

If you are specifically referring to a Wikitree search, this is what I do.

I write the surname into the Last Name box on the main page, (or at the top of any other profile page) which brings up a list of all the profiles with that last name - as well as some variations of that name. Then I use Edit and Find from the browser menu, to search for the country, location, year, or whatever it is I am looking for. It may take a while longer, but I often get to find what I want or at least learn that the person I am looking for is NOT yet on Wikitree.

Answer 6

I don't know how to do this and agree that it would be useful. It is possible to search your family list by birth location and death location, but even in this case it would be helpful to be able to sort by country, then state/province, etc. to a smaller region. As it is now, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland and Victor, Ontario, New York, United States are adjacent in my family list, which is less helpful than if Veenendaal was adjacent to Rhenen or Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland.

Answer 7

I might have answered my own question. If you do a Google site search on Wikitree.com and a name and state, you can get reasonable results.  The format looks like the following that you put in the Google search box:

site:www.wikitree.com Moore Carolina

This will only search wikitree for profiles and spaces containing the words "Moore" and "Carolina"

Comments

I think this is the same search that Lindy describes above -a Google search of WikiTree.