Beyond the EU: DORA and NIS 2 Directive's Global Impact
Census on Ancestry, Part 2
1. Ancestry Census Searching: Part II Your search terms = FILTER through which all the possibilities pass--if you filter out too much you may not find your target person Types of Searches All Years vs. Year-by-year Exact Name: Exact spelling vs. Soundex Non-exact Name –> Let Ancestry find possibilities Wildcard -> You identify where spelling could vary Manual entry of spelling variations First name only: use most unusual name in family + specific location
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3. Single yearAll types of searches can be done as “all years” or single year searches
4. EXACT SEARCH Opinions differ. Some recommend you do exact search first. In doing this, you are betting that all the stars aligned and your target is indexed “correctly.” It could happen. It is (my opinion) more likely to happen for people in modern censuses, people living in small towns or rural areas, people with easily understood names, people with unique names.
13. Exact search ~ exact Exact search ~ Soundex “Regular” (non-exact) ~ spelling variations Wildcard ~ variations in chosen spot in name Manual
14. Ancestry “Regular” (non-exact)Search: Leave unchecked State - Yes! County - not necessary Town - helpful Add Name & Location Add Age if name is common
15. In“regular” (non-exact) searches, it’s probably better to searchsingle years: Click on the census year you want to search Remember to start with what you know, and go from recent backwards to the past.
16. Exact search ~ exact Exact search ~ Soundex “Regular” (non-exact) ~ spelling variations Wildcard ~ variations in chosen spot in name Manual
17. Wildcard Searching:brings up spelling variants Wildcardscan be inserted between letters or at the beginning or the end of a name. Can be used for first or last names ? Stands for one letter * Stands for multiple letters ?ose Perez – finds Jose or Rose Jose*rezfinds Alvarez, Gutierez, Ramirez, etc. John Fran*finds Frances, Francisco, Franchi, etc.
18. An ALL-YEARS WILDCARDsearch will bring up a confusing and infinite variety of results
19. Manual Searching This involves entering variations in the name box, based on possible letter-confusions due to bad handwriting: n, v, m, and r, for example, or a, o, and u. your experience with how the name is sometimes misspelled For example, in searching for Michael Burns (in a certain place and time, Ancestry’s regular search will find Burnes, Barns, Barnes, and even Beirne, and so on; wildcards may expand the results too much. “Bruns” and “Bunce,” two actual index errors for Burns, could only be found by a manual search
20. Exact search ~ exact Exact search ~ Soundex “Regular” (non-exact) ~ spelling variations Wildcard ~ variations in chosen spot in name Manual If (or–most of the time– when) your person does not appear after an exact search, your strategy will be determined by the name you seek.
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23. The First-Name-Only Search:a “quick fire” solution to botched surname indexing Requirement: Unusual name in the family Not George, John, Elizabeth, Mary – names in common in the time and place But Herman, Josiah, Phoebe, Carolyn – any name which is in minor use in that place and time Use: first name + exact location (and maybe + age ) Leave off surname! Results: Every person in the town with that first name You then scan the results for a name close to the one you seek
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