Family Historian User Group

Hi all I’m researching a new branch of my family and came across an street address that was familiar in that I had seen the street raddress in another census entry that I’d previously seen, so I searched working with data - addresses, only to find that the street didn’t appear because I needed to put in the house number. I found it by labouriously searching through every number.
Is there a way to easily find the street through this search?
Thanks
Mike Davies

Use Edit > Find... and tick Addresses only.

To use wild card searching use the Search and Replace plugin and select Address fields with Lua Pattern Mode, etc...

My approach, which covers this scenario is to place house numbers after the address. i.e High Street, 54.
This serves 2 similar purposes
1. When entering an address in a fact, the autofill kicks in immediately, helping to fill addresses with less typing
2. When Working with data - addresses, the street names are sorted by name rather than by House number, which I deem more useful.

Out of interest, the dutch use this form of addressing. i.e street name, house number. It may seem unusual, but if you think about it, is the more logical way to address mail. I’m sure postie looks for street name first, then looks for house number

Another approach is to put a comma after the house number/name (and start with a comma if you don't know the number, only the street). The street name will then always be in the second column in Tools> Work with Data > Addresses, and you can sort on that column to bring all the addresses with the same street name together.

Thanks all for your answers. Edit > Find and tick Addresses only does just what I need.
Yet again fantastic help.
Mike Davies

Gowermick wrote: ↑

24 Apr 2022 17:42

My approach, which covers this scenario is to place house numbers after the address. i.e High Street, 54.

If you would like to take this a BIG step forward you could reverse the whole Place/Address then it sorts "out of the box",
you may like to check out my take on PLACe structure convention see https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic ... ce#p104363

Having said that I find FH Place/Address filter/search pretty useless and as Mike suggests I would normally use his Search and Replace plugin. The other advantage of this approach is that it would probably also find items that had been entered structurally incorrectly.