http://relativemusings.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/misspelled-names-in-genealogy/ Musings on genealogy & family history, mine & others Wed, 22 May 2013 04:26:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://relativemusings.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/misspelled-names-in-genealogy/#comment-3071 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:09:51 +0000 http://relativemusings.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-3071 In Genealogy there are a lot of spelling mistakes, nicknames and spelling abreviations. When trying to find your ancestor you need to be aware of these. You may also need to know how to find them in an index when this occurs. Check out the blog about names and genealogy. It offers a number of suggestions on how to perform some searches when this happens.

]]> http://relativemusings.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/misspelled-names-in-genealogy/#comment-3052 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:50:56 +0000 http://relativemusings.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-3052 [...] an aside, Leaming is a surname turned into a given name, and it is misspelled in many different ways including Leman, Leming, Leyming and more. Leaming Hawkins Bradley apparently insisted that his [...]

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