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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #63 on: Monday 18 October 10 00:10 BST (UK) »
Ive been looking for a ship called "Bourneup"

I keep getting Melbourne up.

Even with the ""

 >:( Ted
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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #64 on: Monday 18 October 10 01:04 BST (UK) »
Ive been looking for a ship called "Bourneup"

I keep getting Melbourne up.

Even with the ""

 >:( Ted

Hi Ted,
I just googled ship bourneup and a couple of references came up. Spelling changed to Bourneuf though. Don't know if it's the ship you're looking for; out of Liverpool to Australia.
Below those are refs for emigrant ship Bourneup.

Good luck,
Regards, Alison  :)

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« Reply #65 on: Monday 18 October 10 01:32 BST (UK) »
Thanks Alison I found that one too.

But I found the info I wanted through someone on Rootschat so all is good.

It was just another G :o gle moment

 ;D Ted
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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #66 on: Thursday 21 October 10 07:41 BST (UK) »
I have a Royal Albert Quarrell  :o

I've tried the trick mentioned earlier in this thread about putting a minus sign and then hall and it does take away all those Royal Albert Hall references. Still plenty of others to eliminate though.

So thanks JustKia

Cheers, Alison  :)


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« Reply #67 on: Thursday 21 October 10 21:22 BST (UK) »
I have HILLS thats not easy to google

Also Parker, Gurr, Hutt, Rieu and many more

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #68 on: Saturday 23 October 10 00:04 BST (UK) »
Thomas O'Malley

.. sounds like a perfectly normal, even if rather common, name but if I try to search on it, I get an awful lot of results that seem to think I just want the lyrics to a song!  ::)
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 #69 on: Saturday 23 October 10 00:19 BST (UK) »
Ware.

hardware, earthenware, silverware, Tupperware .....
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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« Reply #70 on: Saturday 23 October 10 01:09 BST (UK) »
I have Wild, Belt, Storey  which all give different meanings.   :(
Simpson-Kildwick,Yorkshire & Australia, Overend-Sutton, Kildwick,Yorkshire & Australia, Whitaker - Cononley/Yorkshire, Pickard - Silsden/Yorkshire, Howarth - Skipton/Yorkshire and Lancashire, Heaton-Yorkshire, Preston-Yorkshire, Myers-Yorkshire & Australia, Wild-Yorkshire & Australia. Storey-Middlesex/Australia

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Re: Names which cause problems with searches....
« Reply #71 on: Saturday 23 October 10 11:05 BST (UK) »
Ware.

hardware, earthenware, silverware, Tupperware .....

Search for " ware " with a space within the quotes before and after the word.  This removes most but not all instances of warehouse as well.

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