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From: Tom Mueller <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Ancestry.com & Census Issues
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:12:38 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20040925000930.3718.qmail@web52806.mail.yahoo.com>


I will be interested in seeing the results of De*alb
[or whatever Ancestry's wildcard character is]. I
don't have access here, but will try that Monday
morning.

Tom Mueller

--- Katherine Flynn <> wrote:

> Dear Connie,
>
> In databases and search engines spaces have always
> meant something and can often be one's downfall!
>
> Kathy Flynn
>
> --- Connie Bradbury <> wrote:
>
> > I tried to search again for Slayman in Dekalb Co.,
> > IN and got no hits so I took the county out and I
> > got the family. Ancestry has the county spelled
> De
> > Kalb. I did some searching in reference books,
> > atlases, etc. and find it spelled DeKalb and
> Dekalb.
> > But why would their search engine not recognize
> De
> > Kalb? Guess a "space" really means something!!!
> >
> > Connie
> >
> >
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