Hi Nick, It definitely helps to have a more unusual surname. My first quick basic search came up with almost 700 vague references - such as south eastern-(taking the h easter) I next tried the surname within quotation marks and asked it to sort by most relevant and then chose those hits of 200+ that were in the south (although I did just try one for fun in Ireland and came up with a Heaster arriving in Dublin by ship)
And my first message should read "we have no info" - was pleased at actually finding a possible lead I missed the no. Good luck with your search. Marie nb seacher --- On Sun, 12/14/08, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Nick <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [canals-list] News from 19 century > To: [email protected] > Received: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 3:38 PM > marie heaster wrote: > > Thanks for the website - and yes, very addictive. Just > a quick search of London area newspapers found us a possible > relative we have info about so far. Could lead to more info > through military records. > > Obviously doing better than me. My surname comes up with > 44,802 hits, > but of the dozen or so I've looked at every single one > is an OCR error - > mostly for "any" but some for "Harry" > and "beauty". > > What I can't find out is how to limit the string to a > full word, or to > make it use the leading capital. > > So at the moment mildly interesting, but not particularly > useful. > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > __________________________________________________________________ Reclaim your name @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com. Get your new email address now! Go to http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/
