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The global search finds entities containing the search term in their name or aliases. It is:

• Not case sensitive, e.g. aDa lovelacE will find Ada Lovelace
• Full text, e.g. da Love will find Ada Lovelace
• Unaccented, e.g. Lovē will find Love and vice-versa
• You can use % as a placeholder, e.g. Ada L%ce will find Ada Lovelace

After clicking on the search button in the top right you will be redirected to a result page where more options are available:

• Only entities edited by me - show only entities which you have created or edited.
• Also search in description
• Classes - search only in selected classes, e.g. Place
• Dates
  • This filter is only active if at least the from or to year is filled out.
  • If only a year is provide the from date will be YYYY-01-01, the to date will be YYYY-12-31
  • If only a year and a month is provided it will be the last of this month.
  • If the option Include dateless entities is checked, entities without dates will be found too.

Because entities can have up to 4 date values (time span for begin and time span for end) they will be added to the result if at least one date meets the criteria. E.g. a person that lived from 1540 to 1560 will be found when the from year value is 1550.