On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:55:22 -0000, "Trevor Rix" <trevor@trevorrix.co.uk> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: >That's what you may get with Ancestry new search. Use old search and >exact for exact results. Point to Search, click Search All Records, click >Go To Old Search top right. Old search is way better than new search! I don't subscribe to Ancestry so use it only when I go to my local genealogical society, about once a month... But how can I made a search for names with variations, i.e. I would accept Adam and Adams. On other search sites, I have usually that possibility. PRDH and Fichier Lafrance on www.genealogiequebec.com (Quebec records) allows to search with standardized names, not soundex but names as read are standardized and when you search for example ADAMS, it can be standardized to ADAM and if a record has ADAME it would be also standardized as ADAM so that ADAMS will find ADAME. The ancestry search finds too many unrelated names. Nonetheless, I will try that old search the next time. France's geneabank has a similar feature. Denis -- Denis Beauregard - généalogiste émérite (FQSG) Les Français d'Amérique du Nord - www.francogene.com/genealogie--quebec/ French in North America before 1722 - www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/ Sur cédérom à 1780 - On CD-ROM to 1780