# Searching for a person whose record has certain text **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** filters\ **Created:** [June 9, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/searching-for-a-person-whose-record-has-certain-text/9594 "2026-06-09T17:55:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ddrake](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/ddrake/32/8084_2.png) [@ddrake](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/ddrake)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/searching-for-a-person-whose-record-has-certain-text/9594/1 "2026-06-09T17:55:37Z")
I’m using Gramps on Ubuntu 26.04 and want to search my family tree. I know I have a relative who lived on a certain street, and I want to find that person. I know the street – say, Dupont Avenue – and I just want to do a basic text search and show all people whose record includes that text. But I don’t see a way to do that. Am I missing something? I’m not sure where the text is – as a proper “place” or location or otherwise. I just know that something about it is somewhere in my database. Is there a way to do this? ---
**Author:** ![SNoiraud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/snoiraud/32/72_2.png) [@SNoiraud](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/SNoiraud)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/searching-for-a-person-whose-record-has-certain-text/9594/2 "2026-06-09T18:18:18Z")
I will use the places view (if you entered the name of the street). At the bottom of the page, if you add the references, you should see all events related to this place. see the snapshot: ![place.ref](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/9/96ebd455afc5141103c77bc32dbf9df797294e46.png) I am not sure it solves all you requests ---
**Author:** ![DaveSch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/davesch/32/40_2.png) [@DaveSch](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/DaveSch)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/searching-for-a-person-whose-record-has-certain-text/9594/3 "2026-06-09T18:22:03Z")
The genius (and generous) Kari @kku has a Full Text addon. This is a manual install. Go to his repository here [kkujansuu/gramps: Collection of Gramps addons](https://github.com/kkujansuu/gramps). You want the FullText under addons. The easiest way is to go to the green \<\>Code button and download the entire repository as a zip file. Once downloaded, extract the FullText folder and place it in your [Gramps user directory](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_6.0_Wiki_Manual_-_User_Directory) plugins folder. The plugins folder will be under the version folder `\gramps60\plugins`. Once installed, restart Gramps. Under the Tools menu will be Experimental Tools \>\> FullText search. Once you have the tool create an index of the complete database, you can do your search. Kari has some other addons here that you may also be interested in. ---
**Author:** ![kku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6bbea6/32.png) [@kku](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/kku)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/searching-for-a-person-whose-record-has-certain-text/9594/4 "2026-06-09T19:17:31Z")
Unfortunately the FullText addon did not have support for Addresses (for people and repositories). I have now added that also. Please rebuild indexes if you want that feature. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/searching-for-a-person-whose-record-has-certain-text/9594/5 "2026-07-09T19:18:25Z")
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