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Offline Velveteen

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #36 on: Friday 01 October 10 06:45 BST (UK) »
Well, I'm mainly researching 'Choppin'...in general internet searches I get: Choppin' trees, Choppin' Cotton, Choppin' 'em up, Choppin' Broccolli(which apparently was a skit on the US tv show SNL in the '80's thats' gone viral)...etc. I'm also researching within Demerara, Guyana...I get pages upon pages of nothing but Demerara sugar and rum!

Within message boards, as above, it picks up every reference to chopping something. Argh.  ???

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #37 on: Friday 01 October 10 10:11 BST (UK) »
I can 'Google' all of the names in my tree and have sometimes found links,
One name, GUY, and at best I get references to Guy's Hospita,l at worst Gay dating sites !
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GAUNT N Staffordshire,GAUNT Manchester.GUY,Shropshire, BARTLEY,Salford, Lancs, NEVILLE,Salford. PHILLIPS,Staffs, MAYER,Staffs,COSSAR,Berwick, E and Mid Lothian and Argyll. HIGGINS,Glasgowand Dunoon,Argyll.GALLAGHER,Argyll,IRISH,Herts.

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #38 on: Friday 01 October 10 11:39 BST (UK) »
I have a few in mine...

Miles.....keeps bringing up distances
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Chandler.....both occupation and shop
Warman......some interesting ones to do with war
and of course Rampling....I have to exclude Charlotte the actress and Danny the DJ!!
RAMPLING and CHANDLER London,Middlesex,Surrey.
DOWN,  HITCHCOCK, PAGE  London and Devon.
HIGGS  London and Warwickshire (Birmingham)
SAUNDERS Folkestone, Kent
JERVIS, HOLMES, DOWNS  Longton,Staffordshire
BARRINGTON London
MILES, DEAN London, Somerset
POLGREAN Cornwall

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #39 on: Friday 01 October 10 11:41 BST (UK) »
 .. not in my direct line but in trying to trace a cousin of my father whose mother remarried, I ended up searching for a Backlog.
McDonough, Oliver, McLoughlin, O'Brien, Cuthbert, Keegan, Quirk(e), O'Malley, McGuirk (Ireland)
Dudley, Winchurch, Wolverson, Brookes (Black Country)
Concannon, Moore, Markowski (Markesky), Mottram, Lawton (Black Country)

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #40 on: Friday 01 October 10 11:47 BST (UK) »
STREET is the most difficult I have to cope with, although when I try searching WASE Google insists I mean Waste! I also have GAY which leads to many sites I'm not really into

Steve
Bumstead - London, Suffolk
Plant, Woolnough, Wase, Suffolk
Flexney, Godfrey, Burson, Hobby -  Oxfordshire
Street, Mitchell - Gloucestershire
Horwood, Heale Drew - Bristol
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Horler, Heale, Emery, Clavey, Mogg, - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
McLennan, Mackintosh - Inverness
Williams, Jones - Angelsey & Caernarvon
Campbell, McMartin, McLellan, McKercher, Perthshire

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #41 on: Friday 01 October 10 11:49 BST (UK) »
I have found ancestors before named John Peel and John Terry.

Didn't I have fun googling those!!
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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #42 on: Friday 01 October 10 12:00 BST (UK) »
Yes - I've an Elizabeth Taylor & a Mary Pickford in my lines - and I forgot to mention the fun I have Googling my FOOK family


Steve
Bumstead - London, Suffolk
Plant, Woolnough, Wase, Suffolk
Flexney, Godfrey, Burson, Hobby -  Oxfordshire
Street, Mitchell - Gloucestershire
Horwood, Heale Drew - Bristol
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Horler, Heale, Emery, Clavey, Mogg, - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
McLennan, Mackintosh - Inverness
Williams, Jones - Angelsey & Caernarvon
Campbell, McMartin, McLellan, McKercher, Perthshire

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #43 on: Friday 01 October 10 15:05 BST (UK) »
My problem is my "Child" family, even when qualified by a christian name.  Not only impossible to search for, but also impossible on sites like GR where people insist on putting "child" in the surname on their trees.

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DETAILS OF MY NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE
Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #44 on: Friday 01 October 10 16:58 BST (UK) »
Quote from: behindthefrogs on Friday 01 October 10 15:05 BST (UK)
My problem is my "Child" family, even when qualified by a christian name.  Not only impossible to search for, but also impossible on sites like GR where people insist on putting "child" in the surname on their trees.

David

I'm sure my Child family  are out there somewhere, but I may never find them! Talk about needle in a haystack.

Carole
CHILD Glos/London, BONUS London, DIMSDALE London, HODD and TUTT Sussex,  BONNER and PATTEN Essex, BOWLER and HOLLIER Oxfordshire, HUGH Lincolnshire, LEEDOM all.
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