{"id":470,"date":"2015-07-09T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T15:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2015-07-09T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T15:33:59","slug":"soundex-searches-at-ancestry-coms-kansas-city-and-county-census-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Soundex Searches at Ancestry.com&#8217;s Kansas City and County Census Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is not really a fix, but rather a workaround <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=415\">on the search ir<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-471 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trautvetter-kindaworks-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"trautvetter-kindaworks\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trautvetter-kindaworks-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trautvetter-kindaworks.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>regularity that was noted a few days ago<\/a> on the &#8220;All Kansas, City and County Census Records, 1919-1961&#8221; at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apparently having:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sounds like<\/li>\n<li>Similar<\/li>\n<li>Soundex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>checked simultaneously overwhelms the system. Checking only &#8220;Soundex&#8221; will provide Soundex results. I did get &#8220;Troutfetter&#8221; when searching for &#8220;Trautvetter&#8221; with just the Soundex option checked.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been told that the &#8220;fix is in the works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain if this is a problem on other\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> databases or not. Personally I don&#8217;t think users should have to &#8220;figure out&#8221; the system when it&#8217;s not working, but that&#8217;s a story for another post.<\/p>\n<p>And, as we&#8217;ve mentioned here before: &#8220;If there are things that I can see that are not working correctly, it makes me wonder what else may not be working correctly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is not really a fix, but rather a workaround on the search irregularity that was noted a few days ago on the &#8220;All Kansas, City and County Census Records, 1919-1961&#8221; at\u00a0Ancestry.com.\u00a0 Apparently having: Sounds like Similar Soundex checked simultaneously overwhelms the system. Checking only &#8220;Soundex&#8221; will provide Soundex results. I did get &#8220;Troutfetter&#8221; when [&hellip;]<\/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-470","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\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}