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From: Donald Chesnut <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] competing surname projects at FTDNA
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:50:05 -0500
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At 11:52 AM 11/29/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>IMO, soundex is a joke. I ignore it. I have found the best way to check for
>variations of a name is to search on it in the LDS database:
>
>http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
>
>I have now idea how they have arrived at their system of showing cognates,
>but I
>have found the results quite good (with none of the absurb matches
>produced with
>soundex). You can bet I consulted it for names when I opened all five of my
>surname projects, and I entered most of them as variations for my project.
>
>Diana

Diana,
This is a great resource. I'm looking for variations now. Thanks,
Don

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