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Search Examples

If you want to see all family trees, just click on the "Search the Registry" button.
If you want to see all family trees modified in the past week, select "within the past week" from the "last modified" dropdown menu under Tree Properties.
If you want to see all family trees modified in the past week that also primarily concern Navajo Native Americans, select "within the past week" from the "last modified" dropdown menu, select "Native American" from the "dominant ethnicity" dropdown menu, and then select "Navajo" from the "dominant sub-ethnicity" dropdown menu, all under Tree Properties.
If you want to see all family trees containing at least 5 generations and a surname beginning with the letters "Smith" (which would match Smith, Smithson, etc.), select "5" from the "minimum number of generations" dropdown menu under Tree Properties, and, under Surname Properties, select "begins with" next to "surname" and type "Smith" after that.
If you want to see all family trees containing surnames associated with Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province, type "成都" in the native city box under Surname Properties, or type "Chengdu" in the city box (however, some people might spell the name of this city differently in Latin letters). (If you see boxes instead of Chinese characters in the preceding sentence, it is because you do not have a Chinese font installed on your computer. However, many Chinese genealogists do!) Then, to make sure you select the Chengdu in Sichuan and not somewhere else, select "China" from the "country" dropdown menu and then select "Sichuan" from the "region" dropdown menu. Similarly, you can use the native city box in other cases when the native spelling of a city's name uses non-Latin characters (e.g., München, Kraków, مكة المكرمة).
In the surname, city, and description boxes, you can use the wildcard characters * and ? to stand for any string of characters or any string of at most one character, respectively. For example, a "begins with" search on the surname "Sm?th" will match "Smith," "Smyth," "Smithson," and "Smythson."
If you want to see all family trees containing surnames that sound like Rappaport, such as Rapaport, Rapoport, or Rappoport, select "sounds like" next to surname and type "Rappaport" after that, under Surname Properties. When using the "sounds like" option, you can enclose parts of the surname or city in square brackets, [], forcing the enclosed parts to appear exactly (not as soundex equivalents) in matches. For example, a "sounds like" search on "[M]orris" will match Morris, Moris, and Merris, but not Norris, since the "M" is forced. There can be multiple enclosed parts, the enclosed parts can be more than one character long, and the enclosed parts can include the wildcard characters * and ?.
If you want to see all family trees containing rabbis, select "Jewish" from either the "dominant ethnicity" or "dominant religion" dropdown menu under Tree Properties, and then check the "rabbinic?" checkbox that appears. Similarly, a "rabbinic?" checkbox and "tribe" (Kohen, Levi, Israel) dropdown menu will appear under Surname Properties if you have specified a "dominant ethnicity" or "dominant religion" of "Jewish" under Surname Properties. Using the "native surname" box, you can also type surnames in Hebrew.

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