searching for the name 'di Judica' on the search engine doesnt work, any ideas what to do?
I'm finding it nigh on impossible to search for the name 'di Judica' on the search engine.... I write the name in various ways (Judica de Judica, Giudica) but often end up having to go through a wife or mother of a different name as the search engine doenst recognise the name .... anyone know aht to do?
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Hi Gloria,
I used the Search in FamilyTree to search for di Judica
Just 3 entries showed with that name ... but maybe it is a start for you
GQTK-JD5, LTXR-GYS,GSP4-RZS
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FamilySearch has multiple searchable databases: Records, Tree, Catalog, Genealogies, Books, Images, Wiki. As the mod's response demonstrates, you need to specify which one you're talking about, because different people will make different assumptions.
Records Search doesn't cough up any examples of "di Judica" (the top result was Dudek, yikes), but just "Judica" marked exact gives 200-odd results: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.surname=Judica&q.surname.exact=on&count=100&offset=0&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on
Particles like "di" mess up both indexing and searching. Indexers will not necessarily recognize it as part of a name, and even if they do, they will not always know where to put it. (This is likely at least partly because FS's indexing interface automatically capitalizes the first letter in name fields, and everyone recognizes that there's something wrong with "Di Judica".) On the search end, the algorithms have worlds of trouble with spaces and hyphens; FS thinks Szent-Györgyi is not a match to Szentgyörgyi, for example. You can work around these shortcomings a little, by doing multiple searches and using wildcards, but at some point you have to concede that the records may simply not be there: there are a lot of records that have not been indexed, and are therefore not searchable by name.
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