Finding an address
copied over from
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=734302.new;topicseen#new
Use the person search to find the person of interest and narrow down to one hit using the other fields. Then I put *road, *street, *lane, *avenue etc to narrow down the list of streets in the particular borough.
Then I opened a second browser window with address search. Once I had a hit on whether it was *street,*road etc. I tried to narrow down first part starting with vowels e.g *a*street, *e*street etc.
Each time I got a hit, I would mirror it on address search and narrow down my potential street list. Then try the first letter e.g A*e*street, B*e*street. The mirror list of streets will tell you if some letters aren't worth trying. Although it sounds a long process, I have found two addresses so far quite quickly. Once I'm at street level, I used Dawn's tip to match up the reference number by hovering mouse over preview button and then I get house number.
(Laptop running Windows 10)
You can make the search a little faster by using "?" wildcard (a single character) as well as "*" (zero or more characters).
Example:
Having found that your target is a street, your pattern is:
*streetWorking through the vowels, you find that there is at least 1 "e"
*e*streetHere's the new trick; finding the position of the
first "e".
e*street (no characters before the e)
?e*street (1 characters before the e)
??e*street (2 characters before the e)
???e*street (3 characters before the e)
????e*street (4 characters before the e)
(and so on)
This is easy and quick to do, and tells you WHERE the "e" is, which should greatly reduce your list of streets.
Then look for the first letter, as per LizzieL's original method, by replacing the first "?" in the pattern you've found so far.
BugBear
