How do I use wikitree+ search for a biocheck on a village/town

Question

I am probably being very niave but how do you do a wikitree+ search for a town/village for unknown profiles

Answer 1

You can use Bio Check to search for anything you can search for with WikiTree+ (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:WikiTree_Plus#Text_search_2)

That's a lot. Let's say you want to search for Coleford. You could just go to Bio Check, select How to find profiles as WikiTree+ search results and then just put Coleford in the search text. Then click Check Profiles.

By default that will give you all the profiles that match (somehow) to Coleford. You can sort any of the returned columns by clicking on the heading. You can also search for biographies that contain a specific phrase (then sort the results to see ones that you found).

You can also combine things to search for such as Coleford unknown (in which case you might want to check Report all profiles). Or maybe you want to search for Coleford orphan.

Hope this helps.

Comments

Thankyou but i am still confused where the wikitree+ or biocheck button is

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Okay sorry....

The Bio Check app is here https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/sands1865/biocheck/ although you might want to start by looking at the help https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:BioCheckHelp

The WikiTree+ search is here https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1 where you can put what you are searching for in the Text box and the WT+ help is here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:WikiTree_Plus#Text_search_2

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from your menu, under Find, select Apps.  Biocheck and Wikitree + are in that page.

Wikitree + is very powerful, so using the queries with BioCheck you can check even more things. With Kay's example you could check for a location specifically in Birth, Marriage or Death, also and in combination with a surname or something else.