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Welcome to Cy’s
database. From here you have access to over
26000 Potts surnamed individuals (plus their spouses
totalling somewhere over 33,000) that lived in
the 16th to early 20th centuries. If you are a first
time visitor, please
view and print the instructions for reading and
interpreting the Potts Database search results.
Convenient links are provided for various formats. Then
enter your search criteria into the fields below. You do
not have to enter information into all of the fields.
Please read the brief
Instructions On Searching (below) before entering
your search criteria. Complicated searches take a while.
Database last updated
November 21, 2005.
Use the % sign as a wild card in any field. For example,
if you are searching for a given name beginning with Jas, type Jas%. If you want
to look for all children born to particular parents enter a % sign in the Given
Name(s) field and then enter the parents names in their respective fields.
A search for Thomas will retrieve all those
individuals whose name was Thomas only. A search for Thomas% will return
those who had other given names after Thomas. A search for %Thomas% will
return all individuals who had Thomas as a first or subsequent given name.
When searching for children of a particular father, mother, or set of
parents, you must enter a % sign in the Given Names field or the search will not
return any results. The same is true when searching for spouses or birth dates.
My full name is Cyrus Edward Potts. A search for Cy will
not return my name but a search for Cy% or %Cy% will. They will also return all
Cyrus, Cyril, etc. A search for Cyrus Edward will return only those individuals
with those exact given names.
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