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Re: Check the original records
« Reply #72 on: Monday 25 April 11 13:36 BST (UK) »
Use variations and wild cards, usually depicted thus*, also, it cannot be repeated often enough that prior to around 1800, there was no standardised spelling whatsoever, indeed Shakespeare spelled his own name at least three different ways in his own will.
Ayres Brignell Cornwell Harvey Shipp  Stimpson Stubbings (all Cambs) Baumber Baxter Burton Ethards Proctor Stanton (all Lincs) Luffman (all counties)