Do you know how your favorite genealogy database search site handles names “van,” “de,” “o,” “mc,” and “mac” when they appear as part of a name? Do you get different results when you search for DeMoss versus De Moss? Do you get different results when you search for O’Neill versus ONeill? And what about Van De Walle versus Vandewalle?

Might be worth finding out.

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