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Searching Tip - using a "wild card".
Searching Tip - using a "wild card".
After years of hitting my head on that brick wall without finding any information on my great-grandmother I tried, for the 1st time, to use a "wild card". A "wild card" is when you put an asterisk (*) in place of a letter.
I replaced a letter in her name with * (shift+8) and much to my disbelief I found her marriage listed on Manitoba Vital Statisticssite. More to my amazement was the fact she was married there as all family information pointed to her being married in Ontario before moving to western Canada.
I learned two valuable lessons from the above:
1. Never assume that a name was spelt the way you think it should be.
2. Never limit your area of research to where you think they should be.
Jodie
Previously publizhed in Looking 4 Kin Newsletter 10 December 2004
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