Month: September 2005

I came across an interesting website, DogwoodCityBooks.com that reprints old books (typically 1800s and early 1900s). One example: The Conquest of the Old Southwest by Archibald Henderson, 1869, “The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky 1740-1790.” This particular example contains a huge surname listing. Another example: American Prisoners … Read more

Adam G. Carstensen wrote an article, An Introduction to Double Metaphone and the Principles Behind Soundex for the “Business Intelligence Network”, that explains the background and history of Soundex: Immigrants to the United States had a native language that was not based on Roman characters. To write their names, the names of their relatives, or … Read more