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- CHAPTER 11 LISTS OF SIMILAR PERSONS, FAMILIES AND NOTES
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- OR
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- SEARCHING YOUR FOLDER FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION
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- INTRODUCTION...
-
- GIM provides a powerful tool -- called GIM LISTS -- for
- searching your folder for items of specific information.
-
- GIM LISTS provides the ability to search for a wide variety
- of conditions, such as:
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- -- all persons born in California between 1849 and 1879
- -- all female ancestors who married more than once
- -- all notes which contain a certain word or phrase
- -- all families with between seven and ten children
- -- all persons who married before a certain age
- -- and so on
-
- In fact, GIM LISTS has been designed to be so flexible, that
- you should be able to search for virtually anything that you
- can imagine.
-
- Moreover, GIM LISTS has also been designed to sort and report
- the results of these searches in a wide variety of ways.
-
- This chapter will explain this simple-yet-powerful GIM
- feature.
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- ORGANIZATION OF THIS CHAPTER...
-
- This chapter is divided into several parts, with addenda, as
- follows:
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- PART A: An Introduction with Basic Examples
- PART B: A Glossary of GIM LISTS Commands with Examples
- PART C: Operators Used in WHERE Commands
- PART D: Operands Used in WHERE Commands
- PART E: Conjunctions Used in WHERE Commands
- PART F: Keywords Used in ORDER Commands
- PART G: How to Get the Most Out of the DISPLAY Command
- PART H: Advanced Examples; Arcane WHERE Command Syntax
- PART I: Six Different Lists of Place Names
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- ADDENDUM J: If You Happen to See Any Program Errors
- ADDENDUM K: If Any Of This Stuff Doesn't Make Sense
- ADDENDUM L: A Sample GIM LISTS Script
-
- Each of these parts is contained in its own file. For
- example, Part F is contained in the file "gim11f.doc".
-