> And, even though not perfect, > the HQ indexes are reputed to be the most accurate. > > "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com> I also find the HQ images to be MUCH faster-loading and easy to scroll around than Ancestry's various (IMHO) painful image-viewing apparatuses. However, as far as I can tell, HQ does not use Soundex or any other form of "fuzzy" searching. One has to search on every possible spelling variant, which can be time-consuming, and even then you can miss some wacky new misreading of a name. Also, as may have been mentioned before, HQ indexes only one instance of each surname in each household. So sometimes I do my initial search on Ancestry, get the roll#, page, etc, then flip over to HQ's "Search by page number" to get their easy-to-use (and easy-to-copy) image. Ingrid Giffin ilglists@earthlink.net