Hello
I suspect the original OCR reading is the problem and you'll see this in some of the snippet view results.
As Martin suggests, better to search with a word individually, or try differing combination of two or three words in the top search bar and one of those words in the lower.
When I search "Hood" I get 'stood' e.g., all those who stood indebted to ... or Wood, or Neighbourhood etc.
However, I have made some fantastic finds over 9 years:-
My ancestors:-
i) one was Elected Overseer of the Poor 1838 (no Elections survive for 1838)
ii) owned a 10 H.P. Steam Engine.
iii) one was involved in a Trust and who the other party was
iv) properties advertised and described too, that he had purchased (according to the Deeds Registry entries)
v) someone who died at the bar in the Hoods Dram Shop
vi) my 3 x Great Grandfather was attacked in a highway robbery and left for dead (found this by using a corrupt spelling for Selby).
vii) 1815 Marriage Notice of my 4 x Gt Grandfather.
viii) Numerous Death and Marriage Notices.
ix) adverts as they sold properties with full property description, even of a Tannery they rented.
x) a failed attempt to prosecute an ancestor, regarding his dog being alleged to be sheep worrying
xi) several (named with occupations) who served on the West Riding Grand Jury.
xii) one of those ancestors (named) who raised a toast to the Lord of the Manor.
xiii) A Hood living elsewhere at Bowdon, Cheshire (related), who attended the Selby Agricultural Show.
xiv) Members of my family who won prizes at the Selby Agricultural Shows.
xv) one relative who appeared listed at a seaside resort as a visitor (several years) ... Hood Miss, Selby
xvi) a knowledge of people they rubbed shoulders with and who appear in property registrations
xvii) named as a Tenant with Road name and a brief description of the Lot, in an 1835 Sale of a number Lots of the Manor advertised in the newspaper.
xviii) a possible Ancestor, who was a Master Mariner. The newspapers list sailings from Hull and later Selby which give name of vessel and surname of the Master and other adverts had led me to surviving Muster Rolls, using the vessel name and those sailings in the Muster Rolls, they confirm place of Birth and Abode as Selby and corroborate with Dades Registers. I'm hoping it will not be too long, before I can rule him out, or in, as a much older relative and hopefully a generation backward too.
xix) an Inquest and the shock in the town of the sudden loss of William Hood
xx) a sale of the partial contents of my 2 x Gt.G. house, before a house move with an address that tallys with a known family Birth Certicate.
xxi) my Ancestor who loaned her Brother money, who subsequently went bankrupt before repaying it, was revealed at a Bankruptcy hearing reported in his local newspaper.
I have been a subscriber to The British Newspaper Library for 9 years to find all that (as it requires immense patience for short periods, to work through possible corrupt spelling combinations, corrupted by OCR) and my family were not well to do, but probably comfortable and certainly working class characters.
Obviously, I'm frustrated at the numerous OCR corruptions of just the word Selby (e.g. Selbv and Salhy, Selhv, 8elbv, etc., etc.) and also the search sometimes taking you to the wrong page of the right issue and having to search with a word having one, two or more erroneous letter variations in words.
However, I would never have found all the above in a lifetime of reading all those newspapers and it has made my Hoods an everyday living family and what they were up to!
Mark