Ask Aleš (March 2024)

Question

It's time for a new session of "Ask Aleš - What Do You Want To Know About WikiTree Plus?"

See you on Wednesday, March 5, 2024, 9:00am EST aka 14:00 UTC. 

What questions do you have? You can ask by posting an answer below and your question will be answered on March 5. (It's OK if you don't watch live. The March video will remain on YouTube, like the February video.)

If you want to just watch, use this YouTube link.

Greg Clarke will be my co-host.

Answer 1

Hi I never used Wikitree +.  How do I use it? Just started back with Wikitree. Learning something new every day.

Answer 2

I recently started an OPS for Buckfastleigh, Devon (England). There are over 1000 existing profiles with Buckfastleigh as a location. I was trying to find the profiles using the search terms: Location=“Buckfastleigh” not CategoryWord=“Buckfastleigh”  in order to find profiles that had not yet been categorized. Instead it returned all profiles with a location of Buckfastleigh. Can you please explain why this is not working? 

I will need to do a similar search again to find profiles I have not tagged with the 1698 census category. This is what I would have tried: Location=Buckfastleigh not CategoryWord=Census.

Answer 3

I just realised that I missed watching the March Ask Aleš live, because it never showed up in my Google Calendar (via the WikiTree Google Calendar) on either Tuesday 5 March or Wednesday 6 March.  I assumed that it wasn't happening because people were at RootsTech or on cruises or otherwise unavailable.

Here's something you might discuss in the April livecast ...

I wanted to find the earliest end-of-line ancestors with the surname Cahir.

First, I did a search for: LastNameatBirth=cahir nofather

The results are sorted by WikiTree ID, with no obvious way to sort by birth date.

Second, I tried: LastNameatBirth=cahir nofather sort by BiDa

This reported: Search text not found "LastNameatBirth=cahir nofather sort by BiDa".

Third, I tried the "Group field:" feature below my original results.

"Grouping by field: BirthCentury." showed me that there are four 18cen profiles and none from earlier centuries, but gave no link to the details of the four profiles bar four individual links to the four WikiTree IDs.

Fourth, I tried: LastNameatBirth=cahir nofather Dates=B18Cen

This reported: Search text not found "LastNameatBirth=cahir nofather Dates=B18Cen".

Fifth and last, I left out the B: LastNameatBirth=cahir nofather Dates=18Cen

This gave me what I needed in this case.

If I was researching a more common surname, then I may have wanted to refine my search further.

Did I make some subtle syntax errors in my second and fourth searches above with the result that they did not find what I was looking for?

The new One Name Trees App would probably have been the quickest way to answer my question!