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From: "venezia10" <>
Subject: [GM] Re: Handling Surname Spelling Variations
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:04:57 -0700
References: <b6asna$ovt$1@askin-17.linkpendium.com>


> How's the best way to handle entering multiple surname spelling
> variations in my genealogy program... when the person used different
> ones or the records show different ones?
>
> (John Sents)


Try search engines that allow wildcard searches. One can get fairly
creative with the Surname Helper web site. Try Soundex searches,
too. Also, check handwriting of that place/era to see how a letter
may have been misinterpreted. For example, the letter "S" looked
very much like an "L" in the late 1700s Virginia, so SANTONI may
have been written as LANTONI. A lower case letter "s" looked like
an "f" in France in the same period, so Corsica may have read as
Corfica.

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