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    Wild card searching on Ancestry - Good news

    Don't think it has been mentioned yet.
    Ancestry has just improved the wild card searching. You can now put a wild card in the front.
    I've just tried William *eorge and it found George, Eorge, Fitzgeorge, St George, McGeorge.

    You can also have one in the middle of the name: Ge*ge

    More information here.
    An error occurred - Ancestry
    http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/01/04/ancestry-search-improved-wildcard-flexibility/
    Last edited by keldon; 05-01-10, 16:41.
    Phil
    historyhouse.co.uk
    Essex - family and local history.
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    Ooh, that looks useful.
    Elaine







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    • #3
      good news indeed!
      ~ with love from Little Nell~
      Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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      • #4
        Thanks for that - off to try it out shortly and see if I can find my folk that are in hiding.
        herky
        Researching - Trimmer (Farringdon), Noble & Taylor (Ross and Cromarty), Norris (Glasgow), McGilvray (Glasgow and Australia), Leck & Efford (Glasgow), Ferrett (Hampshire), Jenkins & Williams (Aberystwyth), Morton (Motherwell and Tipton), Barrowman (Glasgow), Lilley (Bromsgrove and Glasgow), Cresswell (England and Lanarkshire). Simpson, Morrow and Norris in Ireland. Thomas Price b c 1844 Scotland.

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        • #5
          Fantastic! Must now go back and try some other searches for elusive names!

          Christine
          Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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          • #6
            Ooh, brilliant, I was hoping they'd do that sometime.

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            • #7
              There are still some restrictions, though - how annoying. It says:

              # Either the first or last character must be a non-wildcard character.
              For example, "Han*" and "*son" are okay, but not "*anso*"

              # Names must contain at least three non-wildcard characters.
              For example, "Ha*n" is okay, but not "Ha*"

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