# How to query document to return parent and child result
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-document-to-return-parent-and-child-result/13223
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 15, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-document-to-return-parent-and-child-result/13223 "2013-08-15T03:37:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@cyrilforce](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyrilforce)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-document-to-return-parent-and-child-result/13223/1 "2013-08-15T03:37:28Z")
Hi All,
I have created some parent and child documents :
curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/twitter/author/1](http://localhost:9200/twitter/author/1) -d'
curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/twitter/author/2](http://localhost:9200/twitter/author/2) -d'
curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1?parent=1](http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1?parent=1) -d'
curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2?parent=2](http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2?parent=2) -d'
with the mapping as well. However there is a case whereby i need to query
the parent and child with the result return with both parent and child
information. I would like to know could i
achieve that in a single query or i need to do 2 query each for parent and
child.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Atul\_Bagga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Atul_Bagga)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-document-to-return-parent-and-child-result/13223/2 "2017-03-02T11:51:27Z")
Did you get an answer to this? I also have a similar requirement.
I want to query such that Parent should derive its relevance from both itself and all Child documents and I want to show parent and child items in search result.
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### Author:  [@Atul\_Bagga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Atul_Bagga)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-document-to-return-parent-and-child-result/13223/3 "2017-03-02T13:17:00Z")
Actually I found this thread now which is helpful on this-
> [@Querying both parent as child document fields](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/querying-both-parent-as-child-document-fields/12019):
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> Hello, I'm struggling a bit to write a query that would query fields on a parent document and the fields on a child document. first thought, my mapping: I have documents of type 'resource' (these are the parent docs) which have a couple of fields, the ones I'll be querying are called 'q\_high' and 'q\_low'. I also have documents of type 'message' (the child documents) which have the same q\_high and q\_low fields We've modelled it this way as all top level resources can have messages assoc…
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-document-to-return-parent-and-child-result/13223/4 "2017-07-05T22:02:42Z")