{"id":6281,"date":"2018-02-17T16:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2018-02-17T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T17:06:30","slug":"soundex-and-sounds-alike-still-not-working-at-ancestry-com-what-gives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6281","title":{"rendered":"Soundex and Sounds Alike Still Not Working At Ancestry.com&#8211;What Gives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can only speak for the 1860 census (I&#8217;ve not had time to search others), but it appears that the search at\u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-13080235\">Ancestry.com<\/a><\/em> is still not working correctly. Frautvetter and Frautfetter are Soundex equivalent and certainly sound alike, but broad-based searches for Frautvetter and Frautfetter result in different hits as evidenced by the screen shots which were taken today. <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6263\">This was first noticed a few days ago when searching for these people in Kentucky<\/a>&#8211;but apparently the sounds-based search options are not working correctly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6282\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frautvetter-1860-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frautvetter-1860-2.jpg 734w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frautvetter-1860-2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6283\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frautvetter-1860.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frautvetter-1860.jpg 742w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frautvetter-1860-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I should not have to conduct separate searches for these two last name when the &#8220;sounds like&#8221; and &#8220;Soundex&#8221; options are enabled. For those of us with names that get spelled a variety of ways this is a problem. I should not have to conduct separate searches to make certain I get the same results.<\/p>\n<p>And it always makes me wonder what else is not working.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can only speak for the 1860 census (I&#8217;ve not had time to search others), but it appears that the search at\u00a0\u00a0Ancestry.com is still not working correctly. Frautvetter and Frautfetter are Soundex equivalent and certainly sound alike, but broad-based searches for Frautvetter and Frautfetter result in different hits as evidenced by the screen shots which [&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":[],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","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=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}