marie heaster wrote: > 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.
I've got an unusual surname - the problem is that it's a very short one. On the Internet I get foiled in searches by all the American attorneys, and in these ancient newspapers it's OCR bugs that are stopping me. Ah, well.
