{"id":3646,"date":"2016-11-23T21:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2016-11-23T21:08:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:08:35","slug":"does-ancestry-com-think-troutvetter-does-not-sound-like-troutfetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3646","title":{"rendered":"Does Ancestry.com Think Troutvetter Does Not Sound Like Troutfetter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some names are made for “unexact” searches or the use of wildcards. Trautvetter is one of those names.<\/p>\n

I was reviewing probate records for members of the Trautvetter family using the “Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999<\/a>”\u00a0at\u00a0Ancestry.com.\u00a0<\/em>Because the name gets spelled a variety of ways, I searched for troutvetter with the search slider set to “exact, sounds like and similar.” I obtained ten matches.<\/p>\n

\"troutvetter-illinois-probate\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In reviewing those items (partially shown in the first image), I realized there were no results for the Michael Trautvetter who died in 1869. I knew he had a probate as I had used the records before. I knew they were online as I had used them at\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em> before. Why wasn’t my search locating them?<\/p>\n

I decided to search for troutfetter instead with the slider set to “exact, sounds like and similar.” Sure enough there were the entries for Adam and Michael Troutfetter.<\/p>\n

\"troutfetter-illinois-probate\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But the search apparently is not working correctly–or at least not the way I think it should. Troutfetter and Troutvetter do sound very much alike.<\/p>\n

Why doesn’t the “sounds like” setting bring them both up? I should not have to search for them separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some names are made for “unexact” searches or the use of wildcards. Trautvetter is one of those names. I was reviewing probate records for members of the Trautvetter family using the “Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999”\u00a0at\u00a0Ancestry.com.\u00a0Because the name gets spelled a variety of ways, I searched for troutvetter with the search slider set to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}