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Ancestry/Genealogy

HeiressofBickworth

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12. Don't discount a connection based on the spelling of a name

Reply to LeftInTX (Reply #6)

Thu May 3, 2018, 09:18 PM

May 2018

In my experience, spelling means nothing. Records depended on the information provided by individuals, how they were heard and written down. An official who is of German heritage may hear the name Deal and write it Diehle. Even within a family - some spelled a name one way and a generation before it was spelled differently. When you come up with different spellings, check Soundex for your indexes; you might run into different spellings. So, unless the names, dates and places don't fit, don't discard a name just because of spelling.

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Family Search.org [View all] LeftInTX Nov 2017 OP

Just be careful with that site radical noodle Nov 2017 #1

Unfortunately, the slave stuff is true LeftInTX Nov 2017 #4

I'm sure it's in the ancestry of many of us n/t radical noodle Nov 2017 #5

I agree...be careful with this site. The info is only as good as those providing it airmid Nov 2017 #8

I came across someone who had done a family tree on a branch of my family tree applegrove Nov 2017 #2

Another vote to be careful csziggy Nov 2017 #3

Too good to be true - LOL LeftInTX Nov 2017 #6

Yeah, it is so tempting to believe some of those trees csziggy Nov 2017 #9

Don't discount a connection based on the spelling of a name HeiressofBickworth May 2018 #12

Yeah, I would be very very careful of any information you get from unsourced family trees Spider Jerusalem Nov 2017 #7

In my ancestry research, I found slaveowners in NY,NJ,CT, RI, and Massachusetts wishstar Nov 2017 #10

I looked up John Winslow's family tree LeftInTX Nov 2017 #11

I'm so pleased to see the cautions about on-line trees HeiressofBickworth May 2018 #13

One more vote for caution about what you find on the web GeoWilliam750 May 2018 #14