Tips on searching The Corbould Genealogy

Searching for text: Keep your search string as short as possible. The reason is that the character recognition was not 100% accurate. As an example, although on the screen Mendlesham might appear as just that, the underlying searchable text may store this place name as Mendle sham or Mend lesham . Thus if you wish to find all references to Mendlesham, it is best to use, for example, Mend or esham. As well, try to pick a subset of letters that will, for instance, find Mendlesham but not Haversham.

Searching for dates: In the book, the character most often used for the number 1 was what we would today consider to be a small upper case letter I. So in the book, as printed, 1768 appears as I768. When the dates were converted to searchable text, sometimes the 1 in a date was stored as the letter "I" and the other numbers as numerals. Thus if searching for a date containing the numeral 1, whether it be a day (13) or a year (1823), remember that the search result may not be perfectly accurate. If searching for 1823, search for 823 not 1823.

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