Lawrence Family JCC
Executive Drive & Genesee Ave., La Jolla, CA
All meetings start at 1:00 p.m. on second Sunday of the month
unless otherwise announced.
Please join us at our next meeting:
July 12, 2009 - 1pm
Stephen Morse
Phonetic Matching: An Alternative to Soundex with Fewer False Hits
Searching for names in large databases containing spelling variations often means using soundex, which encodes each name into a number with other like-sounding names. The search is then based on matching numbers, or all names that sound like the target name. The "sounds-alike" criteria is based on spelling, with no regard to how the name might be pronounced in a particular language. Phonetic encoding described here incorporates rules for determining the language based on the spelling of the name, along with pronunciation rules for the common languages. This has the advantage of eliminating matches that might appear to "sound alike" under the pure spelling criteria of soundex but are phonetically quite unrelated. (Developed by Alexander Beider and Stephen Morse)
One-Step Webpages:
A Hodgepodge of Lesser-Known Gems
There are too many utilities on the One-Step website to be covered in a single talk, so many of them found their way to the cutting room floor when the Potpourri talk (the talk he presented to us in 2007) was being edited. However several of those are quite useful. This talk describes those gems that you might not otherwise be aware of. They range from problems with genealogical searches to problems with identity theft and with DNA.
Non-members welcome at $5.00 per guest.
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