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From: "Matt and Carrie Wallace" <>
Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Soundex
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:02:05 -0500


Where do you find the Soundex?
Thanks

Carrie Wilhite Wallace

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Searching the following surnames:
Wilhite, Wallace, Schooley, Sekulic, Rose
English, Strupe, White, Endicott, Montgomery

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin & Jill Barry & Family <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Soundex


> I think it is important to mention for the benefit of those unfamiliar
with
> the Soundex system - if you search for someone under the Soundex and do
not
> find them, it does not necessarily mean that they are not in that
particular
> census. Occasionally names did get missed, or were coded incorrectly,
> perhaps because of uncertainty in reading the handwriting on the original
> census. Most of the possible errors that can occur in the census were
also
> possible with the Soundex. We're still dealing with humans manually
writing
> down information.
>
> Also, and someone correct me on this if I'm way off base, I seem to recall
> that one of the censuses - 1910 I think but not sure - they only Soundexed
> those households that included minor children. So for anyone else you
would
> still need to go to the census to search.
>
> It's also still important to check the actual census report. The Soundex
is
> a good way of finding the exact page in the census - but the actual report
> provides a lot more info than can be found on the Soundex.
>
>
> Jill Arthur Barry
>
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> Pritchard, Sutton
> MICHIGAN - Boboltz, Mitchell, Doezema, Engberts, Matschulat,
Olechnowicz,
> Weber, Kamiske
> WISCONSIN - Barry, Oravez, Hadrian, Skwierawski, and the list goes on...
>
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