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searching for the name 'di Judica' on the search engine doesnt work, any ideas what to do?

gloria caruso
gloria caruso ✭
September 28, 2021 edited August 15, 2024 in Search

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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  • DianaHawks
    DianaHawks ✭✭✭
    September 28, 2021 edited September 28, 2021

    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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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 28, 2021

    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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  • bathompson
    bathompson ✭✭✭
    September 29, 2021

    Hello @gloria caruso,

    Your question has been moved to the Search section of the Community.

    Thanks!

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