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From: Dave Mayall <>
Subject: Re: Another odd entry
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:23:35 +0100
References: <200405132329.i4DNT6lq028393@pcug.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <200405132329.i4DNT6lq028393@pcug.org.au>


On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:29:08 +1000 (EST), you wrote:

> Another point I would like to share because it is troubling me :
>
> Fiche 2466 - Deaths - June 1871 - Page 203 - MOS-MUL
>
> Has one entry with surname MULHOLLAND
> and then four with surname MUL-HOLLAND
>
> I am, of course, TWYSing, but that hyphenation is not common
>nowadays - anybody searching backwards from modern experience is likely to
>do so on the un-hyphenated spelling. If they do, what would they get back
>from this quarter - one entry or five? I suggest it would be helpful if
>they could get all five, but imagine that it would be difficult to program a
>search engine to handle a hyphen occurring almost anywhere in a surname.
>
> Has it already been handled (in which case I retreat deferentially),
>if not, can it be, and if so does it occur often enough to justify the
>necessary programming?

It hasn't been handled, but it can and ultimately will be.

--
Dave Mayall

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