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Title: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: Christopher on Thursday 08 May 08 17:52 BST (UK)
A reasonable number of posters arriving on the Irish boards have problems with place names and surnames which may have been spelt incorrectly.

Here are a couple of links for sites which may assist you ...

1. John Grenham's Surname Variants ...  www.johngrenham.com/search/surnamesearch.shtml

2. IreAtlas that was created by the late John Broderick (aka SeanRuad) www.thecore.com/seanruad
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: DonHugo on Friday 22 August 08 12:33 BST (UK)
Many thanks for the book with surname variants.

I have been told I have about 200 variants!  So far I have encountered only about 6 or 7. However, there are distant ancestor siblings still to be identified, assuming they exist.

Hugo
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: kooky on Friday 22 August 08 16:16 BST (UK)
How does the Grenham link work? I put in the name and clicked on variants and nothing happened!
Kooky
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: Christopher on Friday 22 August 08 16:35 BST (UK)
Quote from: kooky on Friday 22 August 08 16:16 BST (UK)
How does the Grenham link work? I put in the name and clicked on variants and nothing happened!
Kooky

Hello Kooky,

What name did you try ???

I entered Bailey and Farren to check if it is still working.

Several variants showed in each case.

Christopher
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: kooky on Friday 22 August 08 16:37 BST (UK)
I put in my usual BOSHELL and DOWZARD. Probably means that there are no variants?
Kooky
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: kooky on Friday 22 August 08 16:41 BST (UK)
I also put in KANE, McNEILL, and STEWART with similar nil result.
Am I missing something vital in my computer?
Kooky
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: TF13 on Friday 22 August 08 16:52 BST (UK)
kooky,

i tried it as well and it was dead as a dodo. it might be your computers

fault, i know in my case i haven't got flashplayer and cant use certain sites,

but it usually tells me beforehand :-\

tony
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: Christopher on Friday 22 August 08 17:02 BST (UK)
Quote from: kooky on Friday 22 August 08 16:41 BST (UK)
I also put in KANE, McNEILL, and STEWART with similar nil result.
Am I missing something vital in my computer?
Kooky

Here are the Stewart results ... Steward, Stewart and Stuart

If you hit Enter instead of clicking on Variant it should show results.
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: aghadowey on Friday 22 August 08 17:11 BST (UK)
Quote from: kooky on Friday 22 August 08 16:37 BST (UK)
I put in my usual BOSHELL and DOWZARD. Probably means that there are no variants?
Kooky
BOSHELL- Boushel, Boushell, Bushel, Bushell, Bussell
DOWZARD- none listed

Had no problem with the site as such but put in one of my surnames and only 1 other variant came up- not 5 or 6 of the more common ones- which I thought was strange.
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: TF13 on Friday 22 August 08 17:18 BST (UK)
clicking enter worked dead on christopher.

 typed in blacker and nothing came up apart from a link to

irishtimes.com, which does give the variants.

tony

sorry, no variants for blacker on irishtimes.am seeing things now ::)
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: kooky on Friday 22 August 08 18:28 BST (UK)
Clicked on enter. It worked!
Kooky
Title: Re: Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?
Post by: Bubblewrap on Wednesday 11 March 09 23:01 GMT (UK)
Clicked Variants - nothing,
Clicked Enter - still nothing
Clicked Refresh - gave up.