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The online search matches against the full name (first, middle and last name) and email as listed in the online directory.

If a person's complete name or the exact spelling of the name is not known, enter part of the person's name in first, middle and last name order.

For example, if searching for "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt", you can use Jingle to search. If you search on a common name, such as John in the example, the search may result in too many matches, and the directory service will return with an error. If this occurs, try the search again with more unique parts of the name. For example, use the first letters of more words: Jo Ja Ji Sc, or John Jin, or J Schm.

You can also supply more information to narrow the search using the Advanced Search (click on the link under the Search button).

More technical description

To improve search results each instance of one or more consecutive spaces in the search string is automatically replaced by an asterisk (*), which matches zero or more consecutive characters.

When matching against the full name, an asterisk is also inserted at the beginning and at the end. For example, entering John Jones will search for full name of *John*Jones*, which will match "John Jacob Quincy Jones" as well as "Albert John L Jones", "John Q Jones Jr.", and "Johnny Jonesberg".