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Would Enjoy Being Able to Find People Who Experienced a Certain Event in a Particular Location.

ChrisCentner
ChrisCentner ✭
May 26 edited May 26 in Suggest an Idea

I enjoyed the ability to look up (US) persons who were drafted during World War II.

I could use something similar: An ability to search for people at particular times. Something like the following.

FIND A [RELATIVE], [SPOUSE’S RELATIVE]

WHO [WAS BORN], [WAS LIVING IN], [DIED IN]

[LOCATION] [can be very broad, like "anywhere" OR "Europe" or very narrow, like a specific town]

FROM [DATE] TO [DATE]

To give examples:

-- I noticed a record of a person who was in Poland and died right after the Nazis invaded. This intrigued me; I’d like to learn more about her, and her experiences.

-- I was recently working through some records, and found an individual who died during the Battle of Normandy. Further research located his death at Cherbourg. If I had an ability to search the date of the Normandy Campaign, and find deaths during that period, I might be able to find more people in my lineage I should review.

I’d be quite interested in this and other searches like this. It could help us discover family members who lived through a battle or great event or crisis.

Thank you for allowing me to make this small suggestion.

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