Soundexing and Genealogy
Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System: 1985-1997
Russell Soundex System" 1918 -1935
all the sort of general knowledge a needed by genealogists to undestand the tolls we use, and their limitations too.
British Origins - English genealogy search, England ancestor records and England maps has another system
NameX is vastly superior to Soundex
NameX is vastly superior to Soundex, which is really not well adapted for searching for name variants. For example, while NameX identifies 147 highly plausible variants for the surname Wilson, Soundex identifies 1185 "variants", of which nearly 90% are unlikely in the extreme (eg. Wahlgamath, Whilesmith, Willigenburg).
NameX uses a Last name thesaurus containg 75 million entries for 1.5 million distinct last names and a First name thesaurus containing over 3 million entries for 260,000 distinct first names.
About NameX
Russell Soundex System" 1918 -1935
all the sort of general knowledge a needed by genealogists to undestand the tolls we use, and their limitations too.
British Origins - English genealogy search, England ancestor records and England maps has another system
NameX is vastly superior to Soundex
NameX is vastly superior to Soundex, which is really not well adapted for searching for name variants. For example, while NameX identifies 147 highly plausible variants for the surname Wilson, Soundex identifies 1185 "variants", of which nearly 90% are unlikely in the extreme (eg. Wahlgamath, Whilesmith, Willigenburg).
NameX uses a Last name thesaurus containg 75 million entries for 1.5 million distinct last names and a First name thesaurus containing over 3 million entries for 260,000 distinct first names.
About NameX
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