[or-roots] soundex converter

[Sue Steward]

Les, I read something recently that you could download free from google.com
something to do a search on your own computer.  I haven't checked it out yet
but it might be a good idea.

Sue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: RE: [or-roots] soundex converter


> Your welcome Linda, unfortunately I have dozens of neat little things like
> that on my puter that I have no idea are there unless I stumble across
them,
> I guess I need to figure out a way to google my puter. Some of the neat
> little things I have are no longer available from the internet, or have
been
> moved to places I can't find them, and if I don't remember that they
exist,
> I can't share them with folks. I thought I had googled 'soundes converter'
> the other night when the subject came up, but guess I didn't. I also just
> remembered another neat site that I can no longer find and unfortunately
> what I had saved on my puter got corrupted and is no longer useful, but it
> was pages of info for interpreting old style writing.
>
> I know I probably bug some folks with my stream of conscious
> (unconciousness?) postings, but sometimes i jar loose a factoid that helps
> somebody that would have remained buried if I kept it "businesslike" and
> concise and all of that.
>
> Often times newbies don't realize what an infinite genealogy resource the
> internet is, I have been at this for about six years now and have
> accumulated about 9500 people in my family tree, 7 or 8 thousand of whom
are
> actual 'kin' and virtually all of whom are only one or two degrees
seperated
> from 'kin' I have spent maybe a hundred dollars on books and copies from
> distant sources, another hundred or so making copies of stuff at Coos and
> Douglas County courthouses, and the rest of my info has just cost me time.
> My family feels I am obsessed, but I do sleep and work and sometimes even
go
> to family functions.
>
> But I have probably just about enough stuff on my computer and in my
> archives to fill a DVD, I got past one CD a couple years ago at least. So
I
> really try to discourage folks from going the Ancestry.com subscription,
or
> buy $100 CD's route until they are sure they have exhausted the internet.
> But maybe I am just lucky to have found so much stuff online.
>
> Les C
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> [mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of
> LinLouVan at aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 8:41 PM
> To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] soundex converter
>
>
> Thank you, Les, for that URL.
> I don't know if I have seen it before, but it really is neat!
>
> Linda VanOrden
> Junction City, OR
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