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20 ways to find an elusive name including using competing indexes, initials, abbreviations, middle names, nicknames, IGI standardized names, translations, letter substitutes, finding relatives, and searching the record without an index. | 20 ways to find an elusive name including using competing indexes, initials, abbreviations, middle names, nicknames, IGI standardized names, translations, letter substitutes, finding relatives, and searching the record without an index. | ||
:Just because an ancestor always spelled his name the same way, that does NOT GUARANTEE it was always spelled that way by a clerk or by an indexer. If your first search fails to find an ancestor, consider the possibility the name is spelled differently than you expect. In fact, experienced genealogists worry their skills are slipping if they are not finding several documents with unexpected spellings of the name. | |||
:Be prepared to hunt for elusive ancestors in a variety of ways and under a variety of name spellings. | |||
Here are some steps to help find names that seem to be missing from an index (or record)<sup>1</sup>[http://www.familysearchwiki.org/#_edn1] | |||
# <span>'''''Competing indexes.''''' Look for the elusive name in a competing index by another company, if one is available. For example, many United States federal censuses have more than one index. A list of online U.S. census indexes is on the Internet at [http://www.warnes.net/Teslacorp/GenealogyLinks/index_html?Tab=4-US%20Census Census Genealogy Links] at <span></span>http://www.warnes.net/Teslacorp/GenealogyLinks/index_html?Tab=4-US%20Census</span> | # <span>'''''Competing indexes.''''' Look for the elusive name in a competing index by another company, if one is available. For example, many United States federal censuses have more than one index. A list of online U.S. census indexes is on the Internet at [http://www.warnes.net/Teslacorp/GenealogyLinks/index_html?Tab=4-US%20Census Census Genealogy Links] at <span></span>http://www.warnes.net/Teslacorp/GenealogyLinks/index_html?Tab=4-US%20Census</span> | ||
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