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Anyone who has been doing genealogy research know there are many ways to spell a name. This site came to me via Genealogy search tip of the day: https://namethesaurus.com/Search.aspx . It lists diffferent spelling variations for first and last names. Hopefully, this site will come in handy for someone.
What's just as bad is those who translate the documents for ancestry or family search. I have records saying an ancestor of my husband's came in several times via ship from Liverpool England when it was Liverpool, Nova Scotia. I will bet that a lot of the records for ships going in and out of Nova Scotia were transcribed incorrectly as England.
Took me a long time to find Queenie Elizabeth (Surname) in the English census. Eventually had to trawl through all the census records for people with her fairly common surname in her town. There she was - transcribed as Lorcense Ely Abeth!
Took me a long time to find Queenie Elizabeth (Surname) in the English census. Eventually had to trawl through all the census records for people with her fairly common surname in her town. There she was - transcribed as Lorcense Ely Abeth!
Sometimes it could be due to a misunderstanding of local dialect. I haven't found any weird surname misspellings but I did go on a wild goose chase one time looking for family in Sheffield, England. Thank goodness that was back in the days before Ancestry and all I had was an online message board from that part of the UK. Someone over there looked into it and told me my family actually came from a village called Shelf.
When the family was interviewed for the census, they were living miles and miles from Shelf so the enumerator, who obviously had never heard of their little village and who probably wasn't familiar with their local dialect, did the best he could.
There's a site I use. I don't know about the advertising on these forums, rules etc. Maybe I should look them up. Haha. Go to house of names dot com. They have family crests, surname history, origins, and other spellings. Dig a little deeper too. I did. Take my last name. Hanks. Originating from Saxon, Lincolnshire, England. But there's other spellings. I began looking into the spellings and discovered that Anke, a Hanks origin, came from Flemish and Norse origins.
I have yet to do the DNA thing. Price is holding me back.
I did do a DNA test some years back to confirm a man as my biological father. Discovered I'm 1/4 Native American, from the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. And I'm quite proud of my heritage!
There's a site I use. I don't know about the advertising on these forums, rules etc. Maybe I should look them up. Haha. Go to house of names dot com. They have family crests, surname history, origins, and other spellings. Dig a little deeper too. I did. Take my last name. Hanks. Originating from Saxon, Lincolnshire, England. But there's other spellings. I began looking into the spellings and discovered that Anke, a Hanks origin, came from Flemish and Norse origins.
I have yet to do the DNA thing. Price is holding me back.
I did do a DNA test some years back to confirm a man as my biological father. Discovered I'm 1/4 Native American, from the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. And I'm quite proud of my heritage!
Where did you do the paternity test? Do you have a copy of the file on your computer? If so you may be able to upload it to one of the free sites. My Heritage gives free family matching, ethnicity and surnames when available. GEDmatch gives free family matching and has a bunch of ethnicity tools. Family Tree DNA gives free family matching. See the post Family tree and DNA general instructions
Right now is the time to start thinking of testing. One member just posted in the Geneology & DNA Sites - Free Dates & Specials Thread that 23 and me is doing 2 tests for the price of one. Ancestry will also be going on sale with Black Friday coming up. FTDNA is $69. All of the links are in the 1st thread I linked to
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