Names which cause problems with searches....

[Vixen60]

I have March and Reading(s) as well as Marsh

[Sharon01]

Mine bring up anything to do with the villages/places that have the name.

Salkeld - little Salkeld
Hartwell - mainly Hartwell House
Aldridge - village/town in Walsall

Sharon

[behindthefrogs]

Mine bring up anything to do with the villages/places that have the name.

Salkeld - little Salkeld
Hartwell - mainly Hartwell House
Aldridge - village/town in Walsall

Sharon

On google

You can remove the firrst two of those by adding -"Hartwell House" and -"Little Salkeld"

Similarly tedscout can add -Melbourne to his search.  It comes down to telling the search what you don't want.  The google searches will often search rootschat for you.

[ambers]

The name Summers in Pembrokeshire brings up hoilday parks.

Albert Finney, but mine was not the actor .

Ambers

[MagicMirror]

Marr

Almost every family history website uses it as an abbreviation for 'marriage'.

[carolynb]

I have Hill (including a William Hill but not a bookie)
          Leather ( lots of leather goods)         
          Flood (things to do with water)
          Currie (not curry)
 When I was a child I thought it was so funny that one Grandmother had been a Pursell (pronounced Persil like the soap powder) and the other had been a Hynnes (like Heinz as in Heinz beans) but they do not give me any problems
Carolyn

[barryd]

I have Routledge (sometimes Americanized to Rutledge). A search brings up thousands of references to the Book Publishing Company by that name.

[a chesters]

It gets to be good fun when one of the ancestors has the same name as a famous person of about the same era.

One of mine was Thomas Bewick. Put that in and I get the famous woodcut maker of some 50 years before. Trying to sort out mine is tedious.

AC

[nickgc]

I published quite a few articles and reports in the 1980s and 1990s.  There is a once popular singer musician with my exact name, so it is almost impossible for me to drill down to an internet reference to provide people with links to my stuff when they are interested.  It is one of the reasons I don't have an internet "social sites" presence:  I'm afraid I'd get lost in the noise.  Ah well, I keep telling myself I prefer anonymity...