Menu "Edit" - "Search"

The "Search" dialog offers simple search among persons or families by basic elements: for persons they are name, surname, date of birth, date of death, notes, links or all of them; for family they are notes, links or both.

You can use up to 3 keywords to search.

Search is made in word boundaries. It means that the keyword will be searched inside of each word of an element, i.e. phrases (words with spaces between them) are not searched.

Simple wildcard symbols can be used in keywords similar to those used for search in DOS and Windows. These signs are as follows:
* (asterisk) - a placeholder for zero or more characters;
? (question mark) - a placeholder for any single character;
+ (plus) - a placeholder for one or more of a single character.

If the keyword is not entered at all, it is equivalent to search "*", i.e. to search any nonempty value of the specified element.

Search is case insensitive.

Examples:

• Search word is "Jon": only names will be found which exactly match "Jon".
• Search word is "Jon*": names will be found which start with this word: "Jon", "Jonny", "Jonathan", etc.
• Search word is "Ïåòð+": names will be found which start with this word: "Jonny", "Jonathan", etc., but not "Jon" because '+' sign specifies on its place must be at least any one symbol.
• Search word is "Jon??": names will be found matching "Jonny", but not "Jonathan" or "Jon" because 2 '?' signs specify on their place must be exactly two any symbols.
• Search word is "*jo*n*": the following names will be found: "John", "Jon", "Johnson", "Johannes", "Josephine", and even "Marjorie Ann" because each '*' sign means it can be any number of any symbols (including space) on its place, or can be none at all.

Radio buttons OR-AND work when search more than one keyword and define logic of search: "AND" means to find records containing all keywords and "OR" means to find records containing any of the specified keywords.

Checkbox "Only in selected" works only when searching persons and allows to search only among the selected ones.

If the switch "Always on top" is checked, the window will always remain in front of other windows.

The result of search is shown in Lists of persons, families or shared records. If nothing is found, the empty list is shown.

See also: Menu "Edit" - "Advanced Search"