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All Given Names and Surnames have been "normalized" to handle the many spelling variations used throughout the Standesbücher, ensuring each individual's name is spelled consistently in every record. A single spelling has been arbitrarily determined for all phonetically equivalent surnames, while two different people may have the same given name spelled differently.

See below for a table of the most common surnames by their normalized spelling. The exact spelling of each name on each record can be viewed by unchecking the checkbox labeled "Show only abridged data in results." For full details on which data fields are included and excluded in the abridged search, refer to the data dictionary.

The Given Name, Surname, and Town fields accept the wildcards '%' for multiple-character replacement and '_' for single-character replacement. If no wildcards are used, a version of the Cologne phonetics algorithm is automatically applied to these fields to allow for alternate and phonetic spellings.

The Town field refers to the individual's town of origin. To search for regions and countries outside of Baden, it is often best to include a '%' wildcard before and after the region or country name (e.g., search "%Switzerland%" instead of "Switzerland" or "%Alsace%" instead of "Alsace").

Searching the Comments field returns all entries containing any text string in a column of the dataset called "Notes" matching the search term. The "Notes" column may contain commentary from the record about the individual, links to records outside the Ihringen Standesbücher pertaining to the individual, or interesting notes about the record itself.

Event witness data can be obtained by unchecking the checkbox labeled "Exclude event witness data from results." Witness data can be interesting in its own right, but is generally of little genealogical significance. More than 95% of records list witnesses to the event.

If you are unsure where to begin, simply hitting Search with all fields empty will return the entire dataset (765 entries, 952 individuals, 4133 rows).

Major surnames

The table below contains the "normalized" spelling of the 10 most common surnames which appear in the Ihringen Standesbücher. However, this table represents just a small portion of the 146 surnames in the dataset (or 86 excluding witnesses).