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Phonetic search?

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Andrea

Andrea Report 4 Jul 2003 11:54

On the basis the spellings can vary quite a lot on the old census etc, would it be possible to have a phonetic search on names? I have gone from Fuery to Furay to Furey to Fury and now to Furry - so what name should I enter them under? How will people know if my family connects up with theirs if I enter mine under Furay and they are searching for Furey?? Just in case you were wondering - I have entered them all under the one spelling of Furay! Please advise GC - or does the search do this anyway?

Unknown

Unknown Report 4 Jul 2003 12:09

Same problem. I have 9 different spellings of my surname in 12 generations. One of my "Heron" families is entered in the records as "Hearon", another as "Herring" One family of my "Whitby"s is "Widby" The difficulty is that I have always used the convention of entering an individual as per the first record, ie Birth Certificate or PR birth entry. What authority have we to unilaterally change names to suit our convenience? Jim

Alison

Alison Report 4 Jul 2003 13:25

I have 5 different spellings in one generation of one of my names with diferent children being christened with different spellings and the name of the company the father owned being yet another spelling its enough to drive you mad:)

Colette

Colette Report 4 Jul 2003 18:17

Oh boy! And I thought I had problems with Pearse as a maiden name and Rogers as my married name!

Kathleen

Kathleen Report 14 Sep 2003 00:42

How about these for Trevarthen then? Treverton, Trevertin,Treverthen,Trevartan Trevarton, loads more vowel mix ups but my favourite mispell is Trevurthun. Definately need one of those Soundex things GC!