Re: Looking for misspelled names
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In reply to:
Looking for misspelled names
11/16/99
Hi Nora,
I'm descended from Thomas Yale of CT.If you're looking for spellings, have you tried the Soundex system?How-to books in a library will help you turn Yahl into a code.Using the code turns up all the spellings of that name in the census.Also, it is only we modern genealogists who try to be consistent with spellings.One document I've seen has five spellings of the name Fitch, all in the same document and all referring to the same individual.Happy ancestor hunting.
Jane