I have both Ancestry and Genealogy but this was from the Ancestry listing I did a first name search only using soundex for Limestone co Tx and turned up this Beny F That is one feature i like about Ancestry you can do a first name search which for me I have found a many that way One person in alabama i was looking for was named Nathaniel James Mitchum and he had a son named John who in 1860 would of been abt 22 but i could not find neither of them any where so I did a John search in Calhoun co Al and looked at all the Johns less than 30 years old they were listed under Witchard talk about far off spelling but found them and of course the actual image he is Mitchum Mitchum is not a common surname and if you dont know how to spell it they might index it as anything even Mitchell not to talk about the 30 variations of the spelling itself Drive ya crazy I found one of my Crocketts in Limestone indexed as Grockett of all things go figure found that also by first name search Debra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Henry" <tex@nso.edu> To: <TXLIMEST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [TXLIMEST] Benjamin Hammond 1870 census > Patricia Oates wrote: > > He would not turn up in my searches of just Hammond on the soundex form of > > spelling for me on Ancestry. Soundex will usually turn up most spellings > > of names unless they are just totally mis spelled. > > I know where he is I found him reading the 1870 Limestone census . I just > > though some one else might be looking for him. > > Are you using Ancestry ? > > Pat Oates in TX > > I was using Rootsweb but their names never turn up. Looks like I am the > principle on this. Ha! > > > > At 05:55 PM 3/8/2005 -0600, you wrote: > > > >>They indexed him as this Pat > >>Name: Beny F Hammons > >>Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833 > >>Age in 1870: 37 > >>Birthplace: Mississippi > >>Home in 1870: District 48 West Texas, Limestone, Texas > >> > > > > > > > > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > > The Limestone County Archives Project is at > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/limestone/limetoc.htm > > > > ============================== > > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > > > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ > Write you list administrator at: TXLIMEST-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >