Mike Stangel,
Yes I do that sometimes, and one problem is that a number of times a tab or spaces or some other invisible characters get copied over as well (before the start of the name) and removing them does not seem to work as it should.
The same problem with searching for profiles also happens when I try to add profiles to to document (like adding the partner and both sets of parents and witnesses to a marriage certificate).
Also the number of profiles shown there can be such that I have to scroll the page down (some names may occur a large number of times). That (using the mouse on the page scrollbar) also seems to trigger problems with searching.
Searching with search more a second time (when the first search does not show the searched for profile), does not seem to work at all.
I gave up adding a name once because the profile would not show. I finally figured out that recently used profiles will be shown, so I finally got the profile added, but it took me some 10 minutes. This really is a problem when you add a document at a later time, because you will not have accessed the other profiles.
Removing everything from the name field and then inputting a name manually does not always triggers a new search.
Some of the problems may be the result of the browser (Firefox) and some add ons I use. I mostly block JavaScript from unknown sources (I do allow Geni however), and I also put some restrictions on third party cookies.
I would very much to be able to use the profile number when adding profiles to a document, because even when showing dates, it would still be hard to choose the correct profiles when no dates are present in the profile.
What makes it even harder is that multiple children in the same family will all have the same names when they died young. Parents named their children to their father, mother and grand parents and kept giving the same names over and over when children died young.
This makes it difficult already but in a family with a few surviving children when they get children those children may have the same names. So it is not unusual to have cousins that are born in the same year to have the same names. So even if a year is known it still could be hard to pick the right profile from a list.
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