{"id":7289,"date":"2018-07-23T13:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:42:27","slug":"demarah-versus-demarrah-at-familysearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7289","title":{"rendered":"Demarah Versus Demarrah at FamilySearch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searches at\u00a0<em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>with the &#8220;exact box&#8221; unchecked will catch spelling variants.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the variants they catch may not be the ones you would think that they would. Sometimes the ones they catch are not the obvious ones. Sometimes the ones they miss are ones that are Soundex equivalent to the name being searched for or ones that are really, really close.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7290\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/demarrah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/demarrah.jpg 787w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/demarrah-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/demarrah-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A search for the last name &#8220;demarah&#8221; and &#8220;demarrah&#8221; (with the exact box unchecked) did not return the same results in a search of the 1880 census at\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em> for individuals living in Clinton County, New York.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7293\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/demarah-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/demarah-1.jpg 936w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/demarah-1-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/demarah-1-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is always worth experimenting with the search options on any site.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve discussed the unexact option on\u00a0<em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>before and the fact that it does not catch all Soundex equivalents of the name being searched.<\/p>\n<p>But all of us, including myself, can occasionally use a reminder.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searches at\u00a0FamilySearch\u00a0with the &#8220;exact box&#8221; unchecked will catch spelling variants. It is worth noting that the variants they catch may not be the ones you would think that they would. Sometimes the ones they catch are not the obvious ones. Sometimes the ones they miss are ones that are Soundex equivalent to the name being [&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-7289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289","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=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}