Names which cause problems with searches....

[Deb D]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!  "Dixon"!!!!

[omega 1]

The surname " Christopher " from Sussex it driving me nuts.

I`ll say no more

Omega

[joanna69]

I have a few...

Court
Baker
Gale
Hacker

The Hacker one is amusing.  I don't think any of my ancestors were keen on breaking into the Pentagon's mainframe!

[peterfelgate]

I wasn't really meaning general searches of the internet where I know you can do filtering; I was thinking more specifically of sites such as rootschat itself where the filtering isn't so comprehensive - entering "hare" finds all occurences of offers the share info, moth brings up "mother", branch brings up "my branch of the family" etc!

[lindylou2_2002]

Paine payne pain is a real pain to search for.

Also Hutson brings up loads of hudsons thinking its a misspell

Saunders keep getting sanders

[FosseWay]

Doesn't the Rootschat search facility allow the specification of whole words (e.g. by putting them in " ", as on Google)? This would avoid getting all the 'mother's if you're looking for 'Moth's.

I've recently tapped into the Martineau family (which produced several interesting civil engineers and Mayors of Birmingham and one VC recipient, and generally has a good internet presence) in my researches and find it's one of the worst transcribed surnames on Ancestry and FindMyPast censuses, passenger lists and other handwritten sources. The transcriber generally gets the Martin bit right, but the last three letters can be anything -- Martinson, Martinean, Martineas... So I invariably have to search with the variants turned on (FindMyPast) or for Martin* (Ancestry) which pulls up heaps of Martins that I know are irrelevant before I even start searching.

I know it's not a very common name but it's not that odd, and not as unusual or odd-sounding as Dawbarn, which features largely in my tree but with fewer transcription errors.

[margaret1]

I wasn't really meaning general searches of the internet where I know you can do filtering; I was thinking more specifically of sites such as rootschat itself where the filtering isn't so comprehensive - entering "hare" finds all occurences of offers the share info, moth brings up "mother", branch brings up "my branch of the family" etc!

I have a similar experience when searching 'Tuck' on RootsChat - 125 pages and most of them are chatters who are stuck.  I'm not complaining though because I am probably one of them

Margaret

[larkspur]

Cant, always looks for can't and Corns.

[Siamese Girl]

I've got the same problem as Gaille with Child.

Bonus is almost equally as bad!

Carole