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 === Misread letters.  ===
-Use the [[Spelling Substitution Tables for the United States and Canada|''Commonly Misread Letters Table'']]<ref>Originally published in Bryan Lee Dilts, [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;amp;amp;amp;titleno=216474&amp;amp;amp;amp;disp=1860+District+of+Columbia+census+index%20%20&amp;amp;amp;amp;columns=*,0,0 ''1860 District of Columbia Census Index: Heads of Households and Other Surnames in Households Index''] (Salt Lake City: Index Publishing, 1983), ix-x. Here by express permission of the author.</ref> to find letters which were possibly substituted in the spelling of the name. Using this table, the name CARTER might be under GARTER, EARTER, OARTER, CEARTER, CEIRTER, CAETER, CASTER and so forth.
+Use the [[Spelling Substitution Tables for the United States and Canada|''Commonly Misread Letters Table'']]<ref>Spelling Substitution Tables for the United States and Canada</ref> to find letters which were possibly substituted in the spelling of the name. Using this table, the name CARTER might be under GARTER, EARTER, OARTER, CEARTER, CEIRTER, CAETER, CASTER and so forth.
 === Phonetic substitutes.  ===