Difficulties with Place names and Surnames?

[Christopher]

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

[DonHugo]

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

[kooky]

How does the Grenham link work? I put in the name and clicked on variants and nothing happened!
Kooky

[Christopher]

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

[kooky]

I put in my usual BOSHELL and DOWZARD. Probably means that there are no variants?
Kooky

[kooky]

I also put in KANE, McNEILL, and STEWART with similar nil result.
Am I missing something vital in my computer?
Kooky

[TF13]

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

[Christopher]

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.

[aghadowey]

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.