When querying any database or searching any record, consider the possibility that a relative’s first and last names have been interchanged. Is the individual named Tinsley Johnson or Johnson Tinsley? Even where the first name is not usually used as a last name, it is always possible that someone entering data or enumerating a census inverts the two names. Individuals whose names are in a foreign language can easily be confused by clerks who are not familiar with that language.
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A comma after the first name of a person will indicate that it is the surname, but is easily missed.
True, but if the quotations in this search are being ignored (which based on the search results they apparently are) then the ordering of the names should not matter.
My husband name is often confused: Morris Howard easy to turn around to Howard Morris- lol, so it will be one we have to check like that.