Ancestral Quest IGI Search From a Filtered List
Overview of this Tutorial:
1. Use the “Advanced Filtering” feature of Ancestral Quest to create a specialized list consisting of your deceased ancestors who are missing LDS ordinances.
2. Check the IGI Online from this specialized
list using Ancestral Quest.
3. Update your family files with the new
information as discovered.
4. Continue your search to the next individual
in your list.
Once
you open your program, you should be at this screen:
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Step 1) Go to “Search”, scroll down to “Advanced
Filter/Focus” and click on it to open up the “Search for Individual” screen.
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Step 2) Click on Define to bring up the ‘Field
Filtering” Screen.
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Step 3) With the Field Filtering Screen open, Scroll
down on the left hand side to “Any Ordinance Date” and double click.
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Step 4) Using the drop down menu, change the “Any
Ordinance Date Field Filter” to “Does Not Exist” and click “OK”.
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Step 5) This will bring “Any Ordinance Date” over
to the “Current Filter” screen. Next,
click on “And” to put this under the “Any Ordinance Date”.
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Step 6) Using the (1) scroll bar, go to “Deceased”. Double click (2) “Deceased” which brings up “Deceased Filter Screen”, make
sure the “Is” has a dot in it and click (3) “OK”.
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Step 7) Now click “OK” to activate the actual
search through your records.
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Step 8) Results of the filtered search are now in
the “Search for Individual Screen” with this “>>” in front of
individuals who have missing ordinance information and are deceased. Check the box that says “Show Results
Only”. This is the list that you will
work with to check the IGI.
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Step 9) Here is the results and your new IGI
search list! You may want to search in
family groups. For purposes of this
tutorial we will start with Agnes Simpson, RIN # 202. Highlight this individual, ***Click
on “Edit” to open the “Edit Individual” screen.***
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Step 10) With this screen open, click on the “IGI”
button next to the LDS ordinance data to bring up the “Search on
FamilySearch.org” screen.
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Skip to Step 13 if you are already signed on to the FamilySearch.org web
site!
Step 11) Click “Sign On to
IGI” to log into the “familysearch.org” web site. (Please note that
this tutorial assumes you are already connected to the Internet.)
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Step 12) Sign on with your login and password,
reduce this window by clicking on the “Maximize/Reduce” button at the top
right. If you need a refresher on how
to size your screens CLICK HERE.
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Step 13) Click on the
“Search IGI” button to conduct the actual search.
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Step 14) Review the “Search Results” on the left
side of your screen to see if there is a match. You can choose to check just one of the matches or all four to
see what information you might need to update in your own family files.
Congratulations! You have just completed the first search
in your IGI Search List.
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Step 15) To see how to update your files, click
here. (Go to Step 10 ) This is covered in
detail in the Individual Search tutorial.
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Step 16) To conduct another search from your list, click on “Close”
to bring you back to the “Edit Individual” Screen.
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Step 17) Click on “Cancel” to bring you back to your
“IGI Search List”.
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Step 18) Highlight the next individual and click on “Edit” to bring
up the “Edit Individual” Go to Step 11 to conduct the new search. To check for sealing
ordinances click on the “Marriage Button” to bring up the “Marriage” Screen.
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Step 19 This is the “Marriage” screen. You can choose to do this search
from here by following the
IGI links as before.
If you need help with this search,
go to Step 3 in the Marriage Search
Guide.
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To Conduct Other Searches:
Click here to go to the IGI Individual Search Guide.
Click here to go to the IGI Children’s Search Guide.
Click here to go to the IGI Marriage Search Guide.
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