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Old 30-01-2008, 02:20 PM   #2 (permalink)
geoff501
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Originally Posted by Paul Reed View Post

How do you do that using your search engine?
Paul,

I'm sorry to say you cant!
I have rather more options on my desk machine than are on-line. (and can do almost anything with a bit of software tweaking) However cemetery and grave reference is probably too much data to add to the on-line version.

The burial plot was something I worked out a while back - it gives me a list of occupants for a specific row in a cemetery (with a bit of manual twiddling). Mostly it works, if the numbering scheme is standard.

One of the more advanced features that I worked out was to find brothers (for Bob Pike's Gallipoli project). I found between 200 - 300 pairs using a pattern matching algorithm on the data, but that was an exceptional search that needed a fair bit of manual input - to make a final eyeball decision on the match.

regards,

geoff
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