I would like to search for any male who has a spouse with a surname of, say ‘Smith’.
For females it’s easy as they change their name but for males I’m not sure if it’s possible?
Here are two conflicting answers: 1) it’s impossible, and 2) it’s easy.
Impossible: RM does not support searching by a spouse’s surname.
Easy: go to the Couple List view (one of the main tabs at the top of the main screen). Click on Mother to sort by the mother column. Scan visually for the surname in question. You can speed things up by typing Smith into the search box so you don’t have so much to scan visually.
The filter of Smith will also include the father column, but it still makes the visual scan much easier to do. I don’t know of a way to filter just by Smith on the mother column.
In the Couple List search box enter “& Smith” (without quotes). It will find all males with a spouse with the surname Smith.
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Ah! Useful, thank you. I was really wanting to use criteria to add them to a group, but this is the next best thing.
Very grateful to you.