Children of the Shenandoah IndexSEARCH FEATURES: Wildcard (? * +) capability has been added to the search, where "?" stands for any single letter or no letter at all, "*" represents any number of characters, and "+" requires exactly one character in the indicated position. Hence, either "Holl?r" or "Holl+r" will return both "Hollar" and "Holler." Likewise, "Fad?l?y" will return "Fadeley," "Fadely and "Fadley." "Wilkin?" or "Wilkin*" will yield both "Wilkin" and "Wilkins" etc. It is highly recommended that you read both the Helpful Hints about wildcards at least once to get a feeling of the power, capability and subtle differences available and also Surname Synonyms for additional help.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Three new volumes of Marvin Vann's 1860 Census with Supplemental Data are now available directly from the publisher. Volume One has been completely redone and has doubled in size; so much so it was necessary to publish it in two parts as Volumes 1A and 1B. Because of additions and corrections, Volume Eleven, the master index has been reissued with expanded information. These three complete the work on the 1860 Census. Click here for descriptions and ordering information for all twelve (1A, 1B, 2-11) books. Format of name is: Last, First Middle with a single space after the surname-comma and between first and middle names. It may be of interest to query on only the surname in which case you probably wish to follow it with a comma e.g. "Lastname,". Try it both with and without to see why. You may also wish to begin with a leading space to exclude long surnames which have the short one you're looking for embedded within. e.g. " Burner" vs. "Burner" in order to exclude "Stoneburner". Married females are listed under both maiden and all spousal surnames. In the case of the latter, their maiden name follows in parentheses. [e.g. Smith, Martha Ellen (Jones)] Nicknames are also indexed and may be recognized as such because they are followed by a quotation mark; [e.g. Jones, Bobby" ]. Sometimes searching on just a first name is useful, particularly if it is not common. Don't necessarily assume a name is too common. "Jodi", for example, yields less than a half dozen hits. Also, if you want only Sam don't query for "Sam" as that will also return all the "Samuel," "Samilda" & "Samantha"s. Instead, add a space and query for 'Sam ' (or 'Sam"' depending on whether Sam is a "real" name or nickname). If only a particular gender is wanted, enter lastname preceded by gender and two spaces (e.g. "f . smith,"). Again, we recommend you read the helpful hints.
Dates may also be searched. For example, how many births or deaths occurred
on your birthday? Format for dates is "DD MMM YYYY". Single digit
days are space-digit (e.g. " 7") rather than zero-digit (e.g. "07"). Again, you
might search on a specific date:
"31 Jan 1971",
or within the decade:
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