In a message dated 9/7/2006 2:16:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Tribehunter@aol.com writes: When cleaning up surnames on the board, do we put the apostrophe in names such as O'Connor, O'Malley, etc?.....or do we leave it out; OConnor, OMalley. Thanks for your help, Marilyn There's another aspect of this that hasn't been discussed. How does this affect Ancestry's searches for surnames? To put it another way, if the surname on a board posting shows "OConnor", will the posting show up if someone searches on "O'Connor"? Does anyone have any experience with that? Wilson

At 07:51 AM 9/10/2006, you wrote: >There's another aspect of this that hasn't been discussed. How does this >affect Ancestry's searches for surnames? > >To put it another way, if the surname on a board posting shows "OConnor", >will the posting show up if someone searches on "O'Connor"? > >Does anyone have any experience with that? >Wilson I just ran two test searches. Search term: "oconnor" on all boards 5329 results included both "O'Connor" and "OConnor" Search term: "o'connor" on all boards 0 results Jackie -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.2/442 - Release Date: 9/8/2006