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PROFESSION SEARCH OPTION.

ROWLANDROBERTS1
ROWLANDROBERTS1 ✭
March 29 in Suggest an Idea

In your search all records, why not add an option for profession or a key word option where you can add more detail such as a profession.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 29

    This would involve re-indexing everything to include profession as one of the indexed fields.

    Not gonna happen, I'm afraid.

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 29

    If/when the 'edit every field' indexer is implemented on collections including profession - it can indeed be added to the index. Whether Search will allow searching on that field - or perhaps filtered - could also be implemented.

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 30

    To clarify, only certain FamilySearch indexed records / collections would even include a profession, so your request would be very difficult to implement, as entering such detail into a field would likely to produce "Nil results". Regardless, another problem would be that the exact same profession / occupation is often shown differently, depending on the record in question - e.g. cordwainer, shoe maker, boot maker.

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