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Enhancement Request: Include Children's Names in Family Search #4878

Open mrqd9 opened 10 months ago

mrqd9 commented 10 months ago

Currently, the search functionality provides results for family searches only if the names of the husband and wife match. However, for a more comprehensive search experience, it would be beneficial to include children's names in the search criteria. This enhancement would allow users to find families more easily, especially when children's names are important for identifying the family.

photon-flip commented 10 months ago

This functionality is available in Advanced Search. Fields for Individual and Father and Mother. I find that I usually need to change from Exact to Contains search settings for the names to get a result.
Do you have the Search menu module enabled? The quick search is limited.

mrqd9 commented 10 months ago

Even with advanced search you can't find a set of children names.

Example: To illustrate the need for this enhancement, consider a family with the following example names:

Husband- John Wife- Emma Child- Michael Child- Sarah Child- Daniel

Searching "John Emma" get you the result, but if you search for "Michael Sarah Daniel"?