British Origins has a few options when searching for names: exact match, "close variants", "all variants", & using wildcards. The "close variants" search is something like the system on the IGI, & returns exact matches, & common alternative spellings or misspellings. "All variants" widens that somewhat. If I recall correctly, on Ancestry you can choose exact matches, or one of the character near-miss systems. I think that's far inferior to the British Origins system. The near-miss Ancestry option produces vast amounts of completely unrelated names. I just tried EMANUEL again: 356 for exact only, 402 for close variants, 414 for all variants. Slightly more in 1861. EMMANUEL got 36/401/413. Paul Hodges wrote: > Hi Paul > > Thanks for that information. I noticed ancestry didn't return anywhere near > as many hits for the name Emanuel as what you had found on British Origins. > > Karen > > > >> Karen, >> >> I have a subscription to British Origins, which has the 1841 census >> online. I think the transcription is more accurate than Ancestry, the >> search engine seems to work better, & it's much cheaper. Disadvantages >> are much less census coverage (1841 & 1861 & partial 1871 so far), fewer >> other records (though it has some that Ancestry does not), & fewer >> census search options. >> >> Paul >> > > > _____________________________________________ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >