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Leave the SURNAME box empty to get variants. If you enter say HODGSON, you will miss out on possible misspelled surnames, etc. We have over 200 variants; many had brief occurrences.

Forenames too come in many formats. For instance, El & Eliz for Elizabeth or Elisabeth, and Wm & Willm for William. Enter the start of a forename plus an asterisk nb El*, W*, An*, Geo*, etc.

The COUNTY search box includes counties, provinces or states. It and the COUNTRY search box accept only abbreviated forms nb DUR and ENG for Co.Durham and England. Standard abbreviations are listed here.

Our database has Yorkshire as YKS, YNR, YWR, and YER (North, West and East Ridings). Enter y* (y asterisk) to bring up all Yorkshire ridings. People give us four ridings when we know there are only three.

In the YEAR box, enter 183* to bring up all 1830s records. Enter 18* for all 1800s. Enter nothing and all possible results will appear in chronological order, then zero in on your choice of calendar years. Full dates are in yyyymmdd format.

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