Tips
On Doing a Parent Search
1) go to
http://www.familysearch.org
2) click on "Search"
the window will look like this:
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Father |
Last
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| *First Name |
*Last Name |
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Mother |
Last
Name |
| Spouse |
Last Name |
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Year
Range |
Year |
All
Birth/Christening
Marriage
Death/Burial
Other
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<td align="left" class="inputField">
Exact year
+ or - 2 years
+ or - 5 years
+ or - 10 years
+ or - 20 years
</td>
<td align="left" class="inputField"></td>
</tr>
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<td valign="bottom" align="left" nowrap="nowrap">
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<td class="inputLabel" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"> Country</td>
<td valign="bottom" class="inputLabel" nowrap="nowrap">
<div id="SubLocaleLabelID">
<div id="StateID">State</div>
<div id="ProvinceID">Province</div>
.</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td valign="top" align="left" class="inputField"
nowrap=“nowrap”>
All Countries
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Ancient Countries/Regions
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia (Republic)
Aruba
At Sea
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Channel Islands
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Congo, The Democratic Republic of
the (Zaire)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
England
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Fiji
Finland
Former Countries and Territories
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia (Republic)
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Holy See (Vatican City State)
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic
of
Korea, Republic of
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova, Republic of
Monaco
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Ireland
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestinian Territory (Occupied)
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Reunion
Romania
Russian Federated
Rwanda
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Scotland
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania, United Republic of
Thailand
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Unknown Locality (World Misc)
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, U.S.
Wales
Wallis and Futuna
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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<td valign="bottom"><br>
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<td> *
Use exact spelling</td>
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So in order to find the children we start by entering the names of the parents
in the top right where it says "Father Last Name" and "Mother Last Name."
At this point you will need to draw on your good organizational and note
taking skills because you need to consider all the different possibilities
and variations for spelling and given names.
Lets use the example of my GG grandparents: Lucio Santa Maria y Cecilia Espinosa
if you enter these names as is you will get 4 of their children from Tepetongo,
Zacatecas
But one needs to be aware that there are several variations by which this
couple could be entered in the LDS database on FamilySearch.
These are the some of the combinations for my GG grandparents that you need
to consider when entering the couple you want to search:
1) Lucio Santa Maria y Cecilia Espinosa
2) Lucio Santa Maria y Maria Espinosa
3) Jose Santa Maria y Cecilia Espinosa
4) Jose Santa Maria y Maria Espinosa
but lets not stop there. Since sometimes the Mother wore the name of her
mom it is important to preform the same searches only with the first names
as is allowed by the FamilySearch search engine.
Here are those combinations:
5) Lucio Santa Maria y Cecilia
6) Lucio Santa Maria y Maria
7) Jose Santa Maria y Cecilia
8) Jose Santa Maria y Maria
in doing these searches I found an additional 6 children for my GG Grandparents
because as it turned out my GG Grandmother Cecilia Espinosa also at times
gave her name as Cecilia Lugo since her mother was Antonia Lugo.
So all that being said now I come to the most powerful of all searches and
I am very thankful to my Cousin Angie Godina for sharing this with me as
I've used it to find many children in a parent search.
lets look back at this window under the Search Tab:
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class=“inputLabel”> Event
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Father |
Last
Name |
| *First Name |
*Last Name |
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Mother |
Last
Name |
| Spouse |
Last Name |
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Year
Range |
Year |
All
Birth/Christening
Marriage
Death/Burial
Other
</td>
<td align="left" class="inputField">
Exact year
+ or - 2 years
+ or - 5 years
+ or - 10 years
+ or - 20 years
</td>
<td align="left" class="inputField"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" align="left" nowrap="nowrap">
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<tbody>
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<td class="inputLabel" valign="bottom" nowrap="nowrap"> Country</td>
<td valign="bottom" class="inputLabel" nowrap="nowrap">
<div id="SubLocaleLabelID">
<div id="StateID">State</div>
<div id="ProvinceID">Province</div>
.</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left" class="inputField"
nowrap=“nowrap”>
All Countries
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Ancient Countries/Regions
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia (Republic)
Aruba
At Sea
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Channel Islands
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Congo, The Democratic Republic of
the (Zaire)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
England
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Fiji
Finland
Former Countries and Territories
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia (Republic)
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Holy See (Vatican City State)
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic
of
Korea, Republic of
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova, Republic of
Monaco
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Ireland
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestinian Territory (Occupied)
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Reunion
Romania
Russian Federated
Rwanda
Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Scotland
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania, United Republic of
Thailand
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Unknown Locality (World Misc)
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, U.S.
Wales
Wallis and Futuna
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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nowrap=“nowrap”>
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</td>
</tr>
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</table>
</td>
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</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom"> </td>
<td valign="bottom"><br>
</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" align="left"><br>
</td>
<td> *
Use exact spelling</td>
<td align="left" nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom">
</td>
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now see where it says *Use exact spelling ? Well check that.
Look where it says "First Name" and "Last Name" on the left side of the above
picture.
Well now you leave "First Name" blank but under "Last Name" you put the parents
combination of names together.
So if the parents names were: Tadeo Diaz y Genoveva Leanos (my GGG Grandparents)
you would enter Diaz Leanos in the "Last Name" box
if you click on "search" you will come up with two of this couples children.
But remember you have "exact spelling" picked so now you need to go through
and use all the possible variant spellings of the above names. Here are some
of the possible combinations as an example as to how you should also try
your particular variations:
1) Diaz Leanos
2) Dias Leanos
3) Diaz Leano
4) Dias Leano
5) Dia Leanos
6) Dia Leano
In doing these last searches I was able to find an additional 10 children.
any questions on these tips can be directed to:
Joseph Puentes
makas@...
ps: if your genealogy is in the Estados de Jalisco, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes
or Ciudad Juarez consider joining
the serious research discussion groups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ranchos/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ciudad_Juarez/
AGarza0972@... wrote:
No problem.
Do you know of anyone that might have contributed some information to Ranchos
that might be willing to have us publish the information in our journal also?
Thanks
A. Garza
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