I have French names which are Hunault dit Deschamps [meaning either, or both, name might be on a document] with multiple spellings for each: Hunault; Huneault; Huneau; Hainault; Haineault, huno, etc etc etc - Deschamps/Dishaw/Dechant/Deshan etc, etc, etc. I use the "sort name" Deschamps to keep me for entering duplicate persons. I've been told the "sort" name function is not for this purpose but I use it anyway and it works fine. Certainly helps with over a 75,000 person database, the majority of which is Hunault dit Deschamps or a variation of either. Fran On 16/10/2011 5:03 PM, dhyouse@comcast.net wrote: > I have a problem with names which might be a shortcoming of the Names Tab entries or, more certainly, the search function. > > There are two families in my database which never decided on how to spell their names. These families have used spelling variations in different branches, among siblings and even within the same household. > > The first family uses various combinations of ele/elle/ela/ella/ellen + ba/be + rger. > > The second family uses combinations of sad/sadd/sar/sat/sart + or + ous/ious/us/is. > > I’d like a way to be able to search for all of the combinations of each family by entering any one of the varieties. The closest I can come is using Soundex but even that misses some of the combinations. > > Or am I missing something that is already available? >