{"id":415,"date":"2015-07-03T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2015-07-03T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:19:48","slug":"does-ancestry-com-know-that-trautvetter-and-troutfetter-sound-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Does Ancestry.com Know that Trautvetter and Troutfetter Sound Alike?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really hope that I’m doing something wrong.<\/p>\n

A search for the last name of Trautvetter in “All Kansas, City and County Census Records, 1919-1961” at Ancestry.com<\/em>\u00a0with the\u00a0“Exact, sounds like, similar & soundex” checked brought no matches. Not one.\u00a0This was something of a surprise as I knew that descendants of Christian Troutfetter were still living in Kansas during that time period. I was also pretty certain that Trautvetter and Troutfetter sounded alike.
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\nI even double checked to make certain I had the “Exact, sounds like, similar & soundex” checked. \u00a0I did. The “Match all terms exactly” box in the upper left hand corner can be checked as that’s supposed to tell the search to only give me what I ask for (in this case the spelling variants) and not names like Tardassian or something equally inane.<\/p>\n

But it should give me Troutfetter–Trautvetter and Troutferrer\u00a0do sound alike and they are Soundex equivalent (T631). But I still got no results.<\/p>\n

\"trautvetter-kansas3\"<\/a>
\nThe only way to get the “Troutfetter” results was to search for Troutfetter.
\nBut if the “Exact, sounds like, similar & soundex” option is checked, searching for “Trautvetter” should bring about “Troutfetter.”
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\nOr am I doing something wrong?<\/p>\n

Or do Trautvetter and Troutfetter not sound alike in Kansas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really hope that I’m doing something wrong. A search for the last name of Trautvetter in “All Kansas, City and County Census Records, 1919-1961” at Ancestry.com\u00a0with the\u00a0“Exact, sounds like, similar & soundex” checked brought no matches. Not one.\u00a0This was something of a surprise as I knew that descendants of Christian Troutfetter were still living […]<\/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":[59],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}