A big public thank you. I don't know how you did it but that's them. Totally different last name spelling. I never would have gotten it on my own. Thank you again, Rhonda

For those who want to know, this is the method I used in Ancestry.com. I've used it a number of times to find oddball spellings. It takes some time, and some repetitive searching, but it's worth results, right? In Ancestry.com, go to the ADVANCED search screen. Type Ant* into the First Name field. (* is a "wild card" and that way you get any name that starts with Ant. You must use three letters, though, as it doesn't work with 2 or 1 and the *). Then in the last name, type Tuchalski Then in the Spelling box, click on Soundex. Leave When Did They Live? blank Leave Keywords blank (if you put Milwaukee in this field, it will further limit your results, but I don't recommend that unless you're pretty certain they were in Milwaukee) Under Where Did They Live? select United States and Wisconsin Under Advanced Options, select Census Then hit Search and you'll get names that sound similar to Tuchalski and whose first names start with Ant*. If that doesn't bring the one you need, try the rest of the vowels (in case the Soundex doesn't quite "hear" them the same way): So... First I searched for Tuchalski, Ant* Then I searched for Tachalski, Ant* Then I searched for Techalski, Ant* Then I searched fro Tichalski, Ant* Then I searched for Tocholski, Ant* If this doesn't pan out, then you need to get systematic. Start at the beginning of the alphabet and substitute CONSONANTS at the beginning of the name, So I tried Buchalski, Ant* and I got lucky. If that had not worked (using Ba, Be, Bi, Bo, Bu), I would have tried Ca, Ce, etc. Sometimes you might want to just try the consonants that might sound the most like the one you're looking for. But as in the case today, it wasn't a problem with how the census taker recorded it, it was that the page was too faded for the transcriber to see, so s/he guessed at Bichalski. [email protected] wrote: >A big public thank you. I don't know how you did it but that's them. Totally >different last name spelling. I never would have gotten it on my own. >Thank you again, > Rhonda > > >==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== >For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > >

Thank you Mary, that was some good info, it is helping me. Wendy in Redding, California -----Original Message----- From: Mary R. Frank [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] 1910 Census help For those who want to know, this is the method I used in Ancestry.com. I've used it a number of times to find oddball spellings. It takes some time, and some repetitive searching, but it's worth results, right? In Ancestry.com, go to the ADVANCED search screen. Type Ant* into the First Name field. (* is a "wild card" and that way you get any name that starts with Ant. You must use three letters, though, as it doesn't work with 2 or 1 and the *). Then in the last name, type Tuchalski Then in the Spelling box, click on Soundex. Leave When Did They Live? blank Leave Keywords blank (if you put Milwaukee in this field, it will further limit your results, but I don't recommend that unless you're pretty certain they were in Milwaukee) Under Where Did They Live? select United States and Wisconsin Under Advanced Options, select Census Then hit Search and you'll get names that sound similar to Tuchalski and whose first names start with Ant*. If that doesn't bring the one you need, try the rest of the vowels (in case the Soundex doesn't quite "hear" them the same way): So... First I searched for Tuchalski, Ant* Then I searched for Tachalski, Ant* Then I searched for Techalski, Ant* Then I searched fro Tichalski, Ant* Then I searched for Tocholski, Ant* If this doesn't pan out, then you need to get systematic. Start at the beginning of the alphabet and substitute CONSONANTS at the beginning of the name, So I tried Buchalski, Ant* and I got lucky. If that had not worked (using Ba, Be, Bi, Bo, Bu), I would have tried Ca, Ce, etc. Sometimes you might want to just try the consonants that might sound the most like the one you're looking for. But as in the case today, it wasn't a problem with how the census taker recorded it, it was that the page was too faded for the transcriber to see, so s/he guessed at Bichalski. [email protected] wrote: >A big public thank you. I don't know how you did it but that's them. >Totally different last name spelling. I never would have gotten it on my own. >Thank you again, > Rhonda > > >==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== >For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please >see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx