Thanks for the tip. The following is the results that we got. I would have never thought after all the searching I do that there was a substantial difference !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE MUST BE ................ I went out to the Reeder Ancestry Board page and searched under: william h. Search Results: 160 matches for "william h." William H. Search Results: 154 matches for "William H." WILLIAM H. Search Results: 51 matches for "WILLIAM H." WM H. Search Results: 49 matches for "WM H." wm h Search Results: 60 matches for "wm h" wILLIAM h Search Results: 51 matches for "wILLIAM h" I THEN DECIDED TO SEARCH AT GENFORUM AT THE REEDER SITE WILLIAM Your search returned 422 matches william Your search returned 422 matches William Your search returned 422 matches William H. Your search returned 53 matches WILLIAM H. Your search returned 53 matches william h Your search returned 53 matches Looks like it is Ancestry that has the problem. Original message: [ILADAMS] CASE SENSITIVITY OF SEARCHES AT ANCESTRY 3/10/04 Just to let you know that I've discovered a problem relating to case sensitivity when doing searches on this board. It could related to all boards, but I've only checked this one, since I was looking for information in here. If you are searching for a surname, do a search of mixed, upper and lower cases for the surname. You will NOT get the same results searching for Meyer as when you search for MEYER. I've reported this situation to Ancestry.com, since it has a serious effect on search results for those trying to find related messages. It's particularly odd to find a case sensitivity in a genealogy board, because it's very common in genealogy messages to UPPERCASE a surname, so it can be easily recognized by those scanning messages.