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Extracted and editted from previously published by RootsWeb Genealogical
Data Cooperative, RootsWeb Review, Vol. 2, No. 21, 26 May 1999.
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LEARCH WITH CARE
This is a simple piece of advice (or warning) for those researching
family names beginning with "Sa," "Se," "Si," "So," or "Su." If you
cannot find the entry that you are seeking in indexes to the census
returns or other nineteenth-century material, then look under the
corresponding name spelled with a capital "L." The problem arises
because of the way Victorians wrote the capital letter "S." It often
looks like a capital "L."
I discovered the problem by accident when researching my wife's family. Despite seeing several birth and marriage certificates, as well as census returns, we still couldn't tell whether he was a Lawyer or a Sawyer. We only discovered the truth (a Sawyer) when we visited the cottage in which he lived. The current owner pointed us to a book published with the childhood memories of one of the sons, which gave us the answer as well as much else besides.
That discovery set me thinking. From the index of the 1881 census, I was missing quite a number of Sandovers. A quick look under Landover gave me most of those "missing." That is not an isolated case. The excellent work being carried out on the 1891 census (and available on the Internet) has approximately a third of the Sandovers transcribed and indexed under Landover. Even the DFHS index of post-1837 Plymouth has one Landover entry and I suspect that the problem could be quite widespread.
Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 28 March 2007, Vol. 10, No. 13.
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