Why Standard Surnames?
Because of the variant spelling of many surnames, due to illiteracy before the 20th century, it is useful for a genealogist to be able to search for a range of spellings of a surname by the input of one surname only. Thus a search for the surname Smith can find all the records for Smith, Smyth, Smythe, and possibly another half a dozen variants. The main problem with this facility is not in its implementation in software, but in the choice of surnames that belong to each standard surname. The list may be too long: for example if Smyth includes surnames such as Smitters, Smithies, Sixsmith, McSmyth and Smithson, Smithdale, Smithwick, and many others, then the recall (meaning the coverage of possible options) will be very full. But the list of hits may then be so large that you cannot find what you need, i.e. the precision of your search may be too low to be useful. When performing a Standard Surname search, the search criteria displayed at the top of the search results includes the surn
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