Search by variables
Once more, GeneaNet innovates and proposes a new search mode in its database: search by spelling variables on surnames.
Spelling of surnames exists only since Marriage Books were created in 1880 and alphabetisation.
Before that , no one paid any attention and three brothers could have been Smith, Smiths or Barrière, Labarrière and Delabarrière.
More recently, many people issued from immigration wanted to ?gallicize? their surname.
For the genealogist, this phenomenon makes searches much more complicated:
When you look for your ancestor whose name is "Moncorgé", you must look as well for "deMoncorger" or "Moncorgie", "Moncourgier", etc.
Under these circumstances, it is then difficult to miss one in your searches!
Thus, between baptism, marriage and death the surname of your ancestor could have been spelled in three different ways. Some other time, on the same record, between the signature and the wording of the record itself, the surname is spelled differently.
To ease your searches, and to allow you to discover new branches of your family tree, GeneaNet has now a new search mode which includes these spelling variables.
In order to identify the spelling variables, GeneaNet depends on a database of variables which you can enrich with your own variables from your family tree.
When you launch your request, either GeneaNet lets you select the variables of the surname in a list, or GeneaNet will do it for you automatically.
This service is accessible exclusively to members of the Privilege Club only. To subscribe to the Privilege Club:
--> http://privilege.geneanet.org
Discover searches by variables :
--> http://www.geneanet.org/members/demo/variantes.php3
Before that , no one paid any attention and three brothers could have been Smith, Smiths or Barrière, Labarrière and Delabarrière.
More recently, many people issued from immigration wanted to ?gallicize? their surname.
For the genealogist, this phenomenon makes searches much more complicated:
When you look for your ancestor whose name is "Moncorgé", you must look as well for "deMoncorger" or "Moncorgie", "Moncourgier", etc.
Under these circumstances, it is then difficult to miss one in your searches!
Thus, between baptism, marriage and death the surname of your ancestor could have been spelled in three different ways. Some other time, on the same record, between the signature and the wording of the record itself, the surname is spelled differently.
To ease your searches, and to allow you to discover new branches of your family tree, GeneaNet has now a new search mode which includes these spelling variables.
In order to identify the spelling variables, GeneaNet depends on a database of variables which you can enrich with your own variables from your family tree.
When you launch your request, either GeneaNet lets you select the variables of the surname in a list, or GeneaNet will do it for you automatically.
This service is accessible exclusively to members of the Privilege Club only. To subscribe to the Privilege Club:
--> http://privilege.geneanet.org
Discover searches by variables :
--> http://www.geneanet.org/members/demo/variantes.php3