diff --git a/libretroshare/src/turtle/rsturtleitem.cc b/libretroshare/src/turtle/rsturtleitem.cc
index 6e3feee52..a77559b15 100644
--- a/libretroshare/src/turtle/rsturtleitem.cc
+++ b/libretroshare/src/turtle/rsturtleitem.cc
@@ -100,15 +100,20 @@ void RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem::serial_process(RsGenericSerializer::Seria
 }
 RsTurtleSearchRequestItem *RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem::clone() const
 {
-    RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem *sr = new RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem ;
-
-    memcpy(sr,this,sizeof(RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem)) ;
-
-    sr->search_data = (unsigned char*)rs_malloc(search_data_len) ;
-    memcpy(sr->search_data,search_data,search_data_len) ;
-
-    return sr ;
+    return new RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem(*this) ;
 }
+
+RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem::RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem(const RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem& it)
+		: RsTurtleSearchRequestItem(RS_TURTLE_SUBTYPE_GENERIC_SEARCH_REQUEST)
+{
+	search_data_len = it.search_data_len ;
+    search_data = (unsigned char*)rs_malloc(it.search_data_len) ;
+	service_id = it.service_id ;
+	request_type = it.request_type ;
+
+    memcpy(search_data,it.search_data,it.search_data_len) ;
+}
+
 template<> uint32_t RsTypeSerializer::serial_size(const RsRegularExpression::LinearizedExpression& r)
 {
     uint32_t s = 0 ;
diff --git a/libretroshare/src/turtle/rsturtleitem.h b/libretroshare/src/turtle/rsturtleitem.h
index 1f4893087..5f29ca0ea 100644
--- a/libretroshare/src/turtle/rsturtleitem.h
+++ b/libretroshare/src/turtle/rsturtleitem.h
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ class RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem: public RsTurtleSearchRequestItem
 		void serial_process(RsGenericSerializer::SerializeJob j,RsGenericSerializer::SerializeContext& ctx);
 
     private:
-        RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem(const RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem&): RsTurtleSearchRequestItem(RS_TURTLE_SUBTYPE_GENERIC_SEARCH_REQUEST) {}				// make the object non copi-able.
+        RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem(const RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem&); // make the object non copi-able.
         RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem& operator=(const RsTurtleGenericSearchRequestItem&) { return *this;}
 };
 class RsTurtleSearchResultItem: public RsTurtleItem