Genealogy, geneology, family history, ancestry, whatever you call it and however you spell it ,like me, you’re probably trying to learn more about your Scottish family tree.
Notice the title? Genealogy, geneology, family history, famaily history. Now this is no mistake, why? Because every day thousands of people either search, or publish details, on the internet using these common misspellings and if I didn’t include them on this site then people using these words wouldn’t find the site!
I’ve read a number of articles on getting started guides within the main ancestry databases and the advice given is always to spell geenealogy properly so as to appear professional and informed and I can understand the reasoning but there are a few downsides;
For example, let’s just say that I’ve got a distant cousin who has just published a full family history of Bob Smith. He’s done a great job, all of Bob’s siblings, children, places of residence, etc, etc. Unfortunately my distant cousin made a typo and entered a title of “The Geenealogy of Bob Smith”. Now, some time later I come along and start searching for the elusive Bob. I go along to Google, Yahoo or whatever and carefully type “Bob Smith” + genealogy. Guess what? No results! Why? because Google looked at genealogy AND geenealogy and thought nope that doesn’t match! Throughout this site you will find instances of misspellings and the correct spelling. What I’m trying to do here is capture the searches of those people who have simply mistyped a word.
The same rules obviously apply when looking for placenames, surnames, etc, etc. So remember, combine common misspellings with your surname searches and I’ll guarantee that you will begin to discover some great sites that you would otherwise miss.
