Find

The Find Feature

Find Results

Search Methodology

Advanced Find

Finding People by Name

Finding People by ID Number

Find and Replace

Results Sidebar

Sharing the Find Results

The Find Feature

The Find feature uses one small search box to look for any word (or words) in your family file. So, just think of what you want to find and let Reunion do the work.

To use the Find feature, click Find in the navbar or press Command-F on the keyboard.

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Reunion's Find feature will search for word(s) in...

The results of searches appear immediately, in the Results sidebar.

Note: If you need a more sophisticated search (for example, a search limited to one particular field or a search for people matching a certain criteria or a multi-condition search), then use the Advanced Find feature. Or, when looking for a person by name, you may prefer using the People sidebar.

Find Results

Reunion will present the results of the search in the Results sidebar (and/or List window). The results show the record and field matching your search and can also take you directly there — to the relevant record/field in the family file.

The Results show...

Working with the Find Results...

To recall any of the last 10 searches, click the Results menu button in the Results sidebar. Reunion will re-do the search.

The Search Methodology

The Find feature will search just about everywhere in your family file. However, to provide the best results, the name fields (of people) are searched in a different manner than other fields.

Examples:

Note about quotation marks: Single, double, "smart," and "dumb" quotes are treated as one and the same. For example, a search for "Leroy" (quotes included) will find...

Finding Other Find Features

Reunion has several "find" features: the Find feature described in this chapter, the Advanced Find, Find Relationship, and Find and Replace.

To access other "find" features in Reunion, click the More button in the Find window or use the little "v" button when clicking Find in the Navbar. See the illustration below.