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From: "Bonita" <>
Subject: [TMG] Soundex
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:55:30 -0600
References: <NDBBJJMPJKPBEPNBFPGAMEOBFJAA.JCardinal@MediaOne.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020210223155.00a321e0@mail.fscv.net>


Unfortunately, soundex does not always take care of these .. especially if
they start with a K rather than a C. There is another name that I always
have to look up twice .. SCROGGINS and SCOGGINS. It would be nice to have a
place for the 'normal' spelling and then use the actual spelling. Right now
I just put in all the NAME-VAR with each spelling. I try to keep the
primary as the baptism or birth spelling .. I have several NAME-VAR for my
German families as the first name on baptism is not necessarily the name
they used .. and of course, that changed as the immigrated to America.

Bonita -- Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Flory" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Index Codes


It seems to me that it would make sense to have a field that would have a
"common spelling" of the name. This way every name could be entered as it
was normally spelled, but there would be a field that could be sorted on
and would sort each surname together.

Or does soundex take care of this problem?

Walt Flory



At 05:56 AM 2/10/02 -0600, you wrote:
>I have been doing indexing of PA church records .. some already translated
>but no index generated .. some originals. I found that using Word worked
>best but it was time consuming and my fingers got tired doing the Index
>keystrokes. So .... I had a programmer write me a macro that it will take
a
>line of input:
>
>Hillmer, Bonita
>Cardinal, John
>
>and it would add the Index codes. I page break to match the document I am
>indexing and ... Wa La .. an index. I do find that at time I have to do a
>Replace all and convert names like SCHMITT and SCHMIDT to SCHMIDT / SCHMITT
>so they will sort together. It is also easy to use the Word index feature
>to do "SCHMITT (see SCHMIDT).
>
>I would share the Word macro with you, but I paid $65 to have it programmed
>and would like to recoup some cost, if you need to. It was a great
>timesaver in my 'volunteer' indexing.
>
>Bonita -- Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Cardinal" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 12:58 PM
>Subject: RE: [TMG] Index Codes
>
>
>A few people have asked how to format the codes so that "manual" index
>entries
>appear in the proper place in the automatic indexes. The following is what
I
>discovered about creating indexes in/for MS Word. There are two methods:
>
>1) Separate people and place index (one for people, one for places)
>2) Combined index (people and places mixed)
>
>You control the choice above via the Index(s) tab of the Publication Tools
>dialog available from the General tab of the Report Definition dialog. THIS
>IS
>IMPORTANT. What you enter for manual index entries is different based on
the
>choice you make above.
>
>SEPARATE INDEXES:
>-----------------
>For the People (aka Name) index:
>
>and their son John Cardinal[INDEX:]People:Cardinal:John (b. 1958)[:INDEX]]
>
>For the Places index:
>
>was born in Anytown, Rhode Island[INDEX:]Places:Rhode
Island:Anytown[:INDEX]
>
>COMBINED INDEX:
>---------------
>and their son John Cardinal[INDEX:]People and Places:Cardinal:John (b.
>1958)[:INDEX]]
>was born in Anytown, Rhode Island[INDEX:]People and Places:Rhode
>Island:Anytown[:INDEX]
>
>Note that in both cases, colons separate the levels of the index data.
>
>In my tests, the manual entries could not be distinquished from the
>automatic
>entries, which I think is the goal.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>John
>
>
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