# Can we give parent/child relation ship between different indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-give-parent-child-relation-ship-between-different-indexes/25872>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-give-parent-child-relation-ship-between-different-indexes/25872 "2015-07-20T06:25:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-give-parent-child-relation-ship-between-different-indexes/25872/3 "2015-07-20T06:36:56Z")

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How to know that my data is in a particular shard? and how can I keep in the same shard???????????

where my settings having following information regarding shards as shown:

"number\_of\_shards": "5",  
"version": {  
"created": "1050299"  
}

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