In advanced search, it would be great to be able to search location only, without entering any field for the profile's name. That way you can find profiles from the same town, and also contact managers with interest in the same ancestral village. For small towns and villages, this is the best way to do genealogy and find further information.
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Jadra (Geni Curator) YES, please - desperately needed!
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Vello Suigussaar Yes. But could the search results be further enhanced (during search) by displaying the profile manager name in different colors? Say GREEN color for those receiving user messages at their home computer, and the normal BLUE color for those who will only see the message when and if they ever return to their Geni homepage. Is anything really wrong with this?
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Dan Cornett Vello ... As I understand your request, you are wanting some kind of indication of the likelihood as to which profile manager(s) are likely to respond to a request (as opposed to those who haven't logged in for many months). Is that what you are looking for?
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Eric Randol Schoenberg, Geni Curator When are we going to get this?
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Judith Berlowitz Still waiting...
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Jennifer Lopez It is very frustrating to not be able to run a place search, for all the people who died at a specific location, for instance. I would think this would be a very easy feature to implement, as a database should be searchable on any field...
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Will Chapman (Vol. Curator) In a way, it is surprising that this feature is not included by default. As such it is one of the most powerful search features in Family Search. It is not simple - as presumed by @Dan Cornett - of locating the most suitable profile managers. I hadn't even thought of that - it is much more about locating people that lived, died, were born, baptised or married in a particular place. For example, migrants from a country often aim for the places where their relatives settled earlier. In my case, I have numerous families that migrated from Devon in the UK to Prince Edward Island in Canada - I don't know all of the surnames so it would be much easier to find them (and their friends or relatives with different surnames) if I could simply search on Location: Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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Carina TT This feature would be very useful.
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Peter Rohel (c) YES, needed. Searching very small towns & finding other Surnames in it, would add to further investigation of possible relationship between familiess.
ps.: offered by practically All competitors !
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Peter Lowe As others have stated, it is very surprising - as well as very frustrating - that one cannot search for locations without putting in a name. This is essential not only for finding people -irrespective of name- from the same place, but also for searching for people where the surnames and/or forenames have multiple variants.
Ancestry.com have a powerful search procedure, where you can also specify the degree of closeness to any particular word that is searched. This is very helpful when there are close spelling variants of a place, or other information.
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Judith Berlowitz Just look at the dates of this appeal. Hello? What does it take?
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Eric Anshel Eisen Some enterprising progammer will undoubtedly come out with some new web-based app that allows this and Geni will go the way of Compuserve, Yahoo, MySpace and other once-dominant programs, just as Geni replaced FamilyTreeMaker a decade ago (which is where our family tree once resided). You'd think they'd figure this out and get ahead of the curve.
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Judith Berlowitz I will take this opportunity to use correctly the word "hopefully" when I say that I saw the subject heading of Eric Anshel Eisen's message and *hopefully* opened the mail, only to groan and sink yet lower into dejection.
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