Searching Chinese characters with Wildcards stopped working

leeym

[Originally from https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/573000]

Based on  https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/searching-with-wildcards-in-familysearch we should be able to use an asterisk (*) for multiple characters or a question mark (?) for a single character.

It worked before so I have several bookmarks, for example "searching for someone named 李段* whose father is 李爾*"

https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=100&q.fatherGivenName=%E7%88%BE%2A&q.fatherGivenName.exact=on&q.fatherSurname=%E6%9D%8E&q.fatherSurname.exact=on&q.givenName=%E6%AE%B5%2A&q.givenName.exact=on&q.sex=Male&q.surname=%E6%9D%8E&q.surname.exact=on

Unfortunately they stopped working since a few months ago. Now it says "No Results Found".

Also it looks like the wildcard stopped working with Chinese characters in general, not just for a specific character.

• Another bookmark for "李普* whose father is 李光*". It used to work and now return nothing as well. https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=100&q.fatherGivenName=%E5%85%89%2A&q.fatherGivenName.exact=on&q.fatherSurname=%E6%9D%8E&q.fatherSurname.exact=on&q.givenName=%E6%99%AE%2A&q.givenName.exact=on&q.sex=Male&q.surname=%E6%9D%8E&q.surname.exact=on
• While searching for "伯*" it also returns "*伯". https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=100&q.givenName=%E4%BC%AF%2A&q.givenName.exact=on&q.sex=Male&q.surname=%E6%9D%8E&q.surname.exact=on

Another pair of queries

• While searching with exact match it returns three results without wildcard. There should be 20+ rows. https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=100&q.givenName=%2A%E7%B9%B9&q.givenName.exact=on&q.sex=Male&q.surname=%E6%9D%8E&q.surname.exact=on
• While searching without exact match it returns incorrect results since row 4. https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=100&q.givenName=%2A%E7%B9%B9&q.sex=Male&q.surname=%E6%9D%8E

Anyone experience similar issues?

Robert Raymond

A fix for this is underway. If it still doesn't work in a day or so, click the feedback button and let FamilySearch know.

leeym

It has beed 2-3 days since, and it is still not working. Actually, the search page is broken entirely, as no matter what I tried, Chinese names or English names, it always return "Something Went Wrong."

leeym

I cleared cookies and disabled extensions, and now it stopped showing "Something Went Wrong" and it shows "No Results Found".

https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=100&q.fatherGivenName=%E7%88%BE%2A&q.fatherGivenName.exact=on&q.fatherSurname=%E6%9D%8E&q.fatherSurname.exact=on&q.givenName=%E6%AE%B5%2A&q.givenName.exact=on&q.sex=Male&q.surname=%E6%9D%8E&q.surname.exact=on

I removed the father part and it returns three exact match records, which means wildcard doesn't work.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=100&q.givenName=%E6%AE%B5%2A&q.givenName.exact=on&q.sex=Male&q.surname=%E6%9D%8E&q.surname.exact=on

If I remove exact match, it returns a lot of unrelated records.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=100&q.givenName=%E6%AE%B5%2A&q.sex=Male&q.surname=%E6%9D%8E

Anyway, just want to update the thread and shows that still it doesn't work as expected.