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Allow unlimited alternate names in the records search linked to a person in Family Tree.

BatemanJill1
BatemanJill1 ✭
March 7, 2022 edited March 7, 2022 in Suggest an Idea

Would you please allow unlimited alternate names in the records search linked to a person in Family Tree? I added a valid alternate name for an ancestor that would allow FamilySearch to find her in an 1860 United States Census, but because I already had five alternate names, mysixth name did not appear in the records search.


Thank you for your consideration. Great program.

Jill Bateman

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  • dontiknowyou
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    March 7, 2022

    Wow. This sounds like an edge case. I'd like to take a look. What is the profile ID?

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  • Brett .
    Brett . ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 7, 2022

    @BatemanJill1

    Jim

    I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...

    Just in passing ...

    Just curious ...

    WHY, would you want, to search using not ONLY, the "Name"; but, ALSO x5 "Alternate Names", in one go?

    I search, using the "Name"; and, maybe, ONLY, with ONE "Alternate Name", at a time.

    Often, ONLY searching, with the "Alternate Names", one at a time.

    The LESS "Names", the BETTER; and, more often, the BETTER results.

    Why, "Overload", the "System"; and, therefore, then have an "Overload", of results.

    As an aside ...

    Personally, I NEVER liked, the MANY "Alternate Names", appearing (prepopulated) when one went to "Search".

    I would "Delete"/"Remove", ALL the "Alternate Names"; BEFORE, I actually, initiated a "Search".

    And, later search for each "Alternate Name" separately.

    As such ...

    I am sorry ...

    I DO NOT 'see', the need, for ADDITIONAL; nor, as you suggested, UNLIMITED, "Alternate Names", in "Search".

    In most cases, the average User/Patron, would not need such; plus, it would only complicate things, for them.

    Personally, I would prefer, that the "System", DID NOT, prepopulate with the "Alternate Names", in a "Search".

    Just my thoughts.

    Brett

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