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Surname Interest
Surname:

(No wildcards are allowed here !)
Surname search:
Exact search
Starting with ..
within name
Metaphone
Soundex
Country:

Select a country and click 'Select ...' button

Region:
[No regions available for this country]
County(GB), State, Territory, ..

District:
(Max. 40 Chars.)

e.g. Townland (IRL), County (USA/CDN), ..

Place:
(Max. 40 Chars.)

e.g. Town, Village or Parish
Group:


One xxx Study:


Occupation:

Select an occupation from the list

Occupation:
(Max. 40 Chars.)

Or enter Occupation here

Comments:
(Max. 50 Chars.)

e.g. Arthur, after 1891,
or before 1850, etc.

Wild cards are allowed in the Place, Occupation and Comments fields

'_' is used for single characters, '*' for several characters

e.g. - jon* will show JONES, JONSON, JONQUIL etc.
       - *one* will show any name with 'ONE' somewhere within the name
       - _ones will show JONES, BONES et
       - *ones will show any names ending in ONES, e.g. JONES, CALHONES, etc

TIP:
If you are interested in a particular county,
just enter that county and click on "Search.."
You can then narrow it down using a surname or place search.


PLEASE NOTE:
In Versions 1 and 2 of the SIT you could only enter a Surname and a Comments text. So any additional information was always in the Comments text.

Any older entries, which haven't been edited to take advantage of the new features can only be searched on the Surname and Comment fields

So you will probably need to search for any name at least twice, using:
1) just the Surname and/or Comment field,
2) at least one of any of the fields.