[or-roots] soundex converter

[E V Barnes]

Yes - They do have a soundex converter. If you use it make a record in a 
notebook - it
really helps when you are looking in the Fed.
Census at their buildings.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sue Steward" <ssteward at ccountry.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] soundex converter


> Les, I read something recently that you could download free from 
> google.com
> something to do a search on your own computer.  I haven't checked it out 
> yet
> but it might be a good idea.
>
> Sue
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
> To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 9:13 PM
> Subject: RE: [or-roots] soundex converter
>
>
>> Your welcome Linda, unfortunately I have dozens of neat little things 
>> like
>> that on my puter that I have no idea are there unless I stumble across
> them,
>> I guess I need to figure out a way to google my puter. Some of the neat
>> little things I have are no longer available from the internet, or have
> been
>> moved to places I can't find them, and if I don't remember that they
> exist,
>> I can't share them with folks. I thought I had googled 'soundes 
>> converter'
>> the other night when the subject came up, but guess I didn't. I also just
>> remembered another neat site that I can no longer find and unfortunately
>> what I had saved on my puter got corrupted and is no longer useful, but 
>> it
>> was pages of info for interpreting old style writing.
>>
>> I know I probably bug some folks with my stream of conscious
>> (unconciousness?) postings, but sometimes i jar loose a factoid that 
>> helps
>> somebody that would have remained buried if I kept it "businesslike" and
>> concise and all of that.
>>
>> Often times newbies don't realize what an infinite genealogy resource the
>> internet is, I have been at this for about six years now and have
>> accumulated about 9500 people in my family tree, 7 or 8 thousand of whom
> are
>> actual 'kin' and virtually all of whom are only one or two degrees
> seperated
>> from 'kin' I have spent maybe a hundred dollars on books and copies from
>> distant sources, another hundred or so making copies of stuff at Coos and
>> Douglas County courthouses, and the rest of my info has just cost me 
>> time.
>> My family feels I am obsessed, but I do sleep and work and sometimes even
> go
>> to family functions.
>>
>> But I have probably just about enough stuff on my computer and in my
>> archives to fill a DVD, I got past one CD a couple years ago at least. So
> I
>> really try to discourage folks from going the Ancestry.com subscription,
> or
>> buy $100 CD's route until they are sure they have exhausted the internet.
>> But maybe I am just lucky to have found so much stuff online.
>>
>> Les C
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
>> [mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of
>> LinLouVan at aol.com
>> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 8:41 PM
>> To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] soundex converter
>>
>>
>> Thank you, Les, for that URL.
>> I don't know if I have seen it before, but it really is neat!
>>
>> Linda VanOrden
>> Junction City, OR
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