Today's Boston 1775 blog post by J.L. Bell is titled Preserving New England's Church Records and is important for all New England researchers.
J.L. provides one example of a church record, and it highlights the activities of a Mrs. Seaver in Hopkinton, Mass. in 1773. When I read this, I said to myself "hmmm, I wonder who that can be?" He promises to write about "Tracking down Mrs. Seaver" in Friday's post - I can hardly wait to see what he finds.
So how can I figure who this might be on my own? Ah, I could use the "Find all events in one place" option in the "Place List" in RootsMagic 6! Here's what I did:
1) On the RootsMagic screen, I clicked on the "reports" link and then "Lists" and found the "Place List" item:
2) After clicking "OK' to Create the Report, I had the "Report Settings" screen, and I could choose "Find events in a single place" from the dropdown list:
3) By clicking on the chosen option, the screen showed a button to "Select place:"
4) When I clicked on that button, the list of all places showed up, and I started typing Hopkinton and the list of places appeared:
5. I selected "Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States" from the list. When I clicked it, it showed up in the "Report Settings" screen:
6) Now, all I have to do is click the "Generate Report" button to create the list of all events in my database that refers to Hopkinton. It's a four page report.
There are Seaver folks on the list. One hint - I think "Mrs. Seaver's" maiden surname initial is C.
I will refrain from spilling all of the beans in this post - interested readers should check the Boston 1775 blog on Friday to see what J.L. Bell finds out!
The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/07/finding-seaver-folks-in-specific-place.html
Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver
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