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RootsMagic provides a large number of ways to search your database, including Person Search, Advanced Person Search, WebSearch, Find Everywhere, and a number of other options. To access these searches, select the Search Page then click the button for the desired search.

Person Search

Person Search lets you search for people by a few simple criteria (name, birth or death date, and sex).

You can view and edit any information about a person from the results, or you can "go to" a person which selects that person in the Person Page.

Person Search (Advanced)

Advanced Person Search lets you find a person (or people) based on many types of information combined with boolean operations.

You can view and edit any information about a person from the results, or you can "go to" a person which selects that person in the Person Page.

WebSearch

WebSearch lets you search a selectable list of search providers for information on the person displayed.

Find Everywhere

Find Everywhere is a global search feature where you enter text, and RootsMagic searches everywhere in the file for that text. Find Everywhere will search for people, families, events, places, notes, sources, citations, media, to-do items, research logs, and more for matches to text within any one of their fields.

Other Search Options

Search and replace lets you search for text in various record types and replace with other text
Root person lets you set a root person so you can always return to this person from anywhere.
Bookmarks let you mark people to go to them when desired.
History list lets you go to recently visited people.
People List lets you search a live list of people in your file
Couple List lets you search a live list of marriages (couples) in your file

Wildcard Searching

RootsMagic will use the following wildcards on the People Page search boxes, found in the sidebar index and People List.

The underscore _ wildcard matches any single character.

Example: SM_TH, will return results for SMITH and SMYTH families

The percent sign % wildcard matches any sequence of zero or more characters.

Example: Be%t will return results Bennet and Bentley

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-RootsMagic provides a large number of ways to search your database, including Person Search, Advanced Person Search, WebSearch, Find Everywhere, and a number of other options.
+RootsMagic provides a large number of ways to search your database, including Person Search, Advanced Person Search, WebSearch, Find Everywhere, and a number of other options.  To access these searches, select the Search Page then click the button for the desired search.
 [[File:RM8_Search-Person-1a.jpg||Search page]]
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 == Find Everywhere ==
-<u>[[RM8:Find Everywhere|Find Everywhere]]</u> is a global search feature where you enter text, and RootsMagic searches everywhere in the file for that text.  Find Everywhere will search for people, families, events, places, notes, sources, citations, media, to-do items, research logs, and more for matches to text within any one of their fields. To learn more see
+<u>[[RM8:Find Everywhere|Find Everywhere]]</u> is a global search feature where you enter text, and RootsMagic searches everywhere in the file for that text.  Find Everywhere will search for people, families, events, places, notes, sources, citations, media, to-do items, research logs, and more for matches to text within any one of their fields.
 ==Other Search Options==
-*"Search, Person List" – lets you search for people by name using RootsMagic Explorer
+*<u>[[RM8:Search_and_Replace|Search and replace]]</u> lets you search for text in various record types and replace with other text
-:The RootsMagic Explorer makes it easy to find anyone in your database. You can find any person by simply typing their name, or by entering information about them (birth date, death place, occupation, etc), or by their relationship with someone else (parent, child, spouse or sibling).
+*<u>[[RM8:Root_Person|Root person]]</u> lets you set a root person so you can always return to this person from anywhere.
+*<u>[[RM8:Bookmarks_View|Bookmarks]]</u> let you mark people to go to them when desired.
+*<u>[[RM8:History_View|History list]]</u> lets you go to recently visited people.
+*<u>[[RM8:People_List_View|People List]]</u> lets you search a live list of people in your file
+*<u>[[RM8:Couple_List_View|Couple List]]</u> lets you search a live list of marriages (couples) in your file
-:You can view and edit any information about a person from the RootsMagic Explorer, or you can select a person to be displayed in the main view of RootsMagic.
+==Wildcard Searching==
+RootsMagic will use the following wildcards on the <u>[[RootsMagic_8:People_Page|People Page]]</u> search boxes, found in the sidebar index and People List.
-*"Search, Family List" – lets you search for people who have a spouse or children (or both) using the Family List dialog.
-:The Family List displays a list couples by Father and Mother and their marriage date, and lets you sort by any of these columns.
+*The underscore _ wildcard matches any single character.
+Example: SM_TH, will return results for SMITH and SMYTH families
-RootsMagic also has several other options to find specific people:
+*The percent sign % wildcard matches any sequence of zero or more characters.
+Example: Be%t will return results Bennet and Bentley
-*You set a root person so you can always return to this person from anywhere.
-*You can mark people using Bookmarks to go to them when desired.
-*You can go to recently visited people using the History list.