soundexA phonetic spelling (up to six characters) of a street name, used for address matching. Each of the 26 letters in the English alphabet are replaced with a letter in the soundex equivalent: ...
soundex
A method of phonetic spelling used for searches and address matching. Soundex uses an algorithm to represent letters and numbers with similar phonetic equivalents to facilitate searching. Referenced by: Gazetteer.
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The 1880 to 1920 censuses have indexes of last names, produced using the Soundex system; the indexing project was performed by the Works Progress Administration.
 See also: Classification, Document, Geographic, Contrast, Database
  
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