Other words to search for (e.g. in dates, places, notes):
What is Soundex?
Beginning with the 1880 U.S. Census, surnames were
indexed using a phonetic system called Soundex. Soundex encodings have
four characters--an alphabetic character followed by three numerics. The
initial alphabetic Soundex character is the first character of the
surname. The three numerics that follow are calculated as follows:
Letters
Become Soundex number
B P F V
1
C S K G J Q X
Z
2
D T
3
L
4
M N
5
R
6
A E I O U W Y
H
(skipped)
If adjacent letters (not counting the first) have matching Soundex
numbers, use the number only once.
If you reach the end of a short name before calculating all four
Soundex characters, pad the remainder of the Soundex code with zeroes.
If you finish calculating all the four Soundex code characters
before reaching the end of a long name, disregard the remaining
letters in the name.
The Whipple Genweb Implementation of Soundex
If you click a "Use Soundex" checkbox, the
search form attempts to convert the contents of the adjacent input field
to Soundex. If the input field contains multiple words, the search form
attempts to convert all of them to Soundex.
Please report bugs, complaints and suggestions for improvement
to wwhipple.com.
