Genealogy Bibliography Introduction

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Throughout this website, you will be looking at holdings records from the SEKLS member libraries. The codes below are placed above the call number in the bibliography. This is to inform you of the Library that has that material.

ALSO BELOW WE HAVE A GUIDE TO THE SOUNDEX SYSTEM USED IN ARRANGING INDEXES.
 
 
Code:  
Institution:
Town:
AC Allen County Community College Iola, KS
Coff Coffeyville Public Library Coffeyville, KS
FTSC Ft. Scott Public Library Ft. Scott, KS
Fre Fredonia Public Library Fredonia, KS
Indp Independence Public Library Independence, KS
Iola Iola Public Library Iola, KS
Neod W.A. Rankin Memorial Library Neodesha, KS
NC Neosho County Community College Chanute, KS
PSU Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, KS
SEK Southeast Kansas Library System Iola, KS

 
  GENERAL NOTES

An * (asterisk) preceding the owning library code means their copy DOES NOT CIRCULATE!

An R (reference) preceding the call number means that copy DOES NOT CIRCULATE!

No separate division is made for periodical; they are included in their related sections.

Frequency of publication and issues owned are included, if known.

NOTE: There are no holdings for Alaska or Hawaii.

Materials should be requested DIRECTLY from the your local library.


Guide To The Soundex System Used in Arranging Indexes

The Soundex filing system, alphabetic for the first letter of the surname and meric thereunder as indicated by divider cards, keeps together names of the same and similar sounds but variant spellings.

To search for a particular name, you must first work out the code number for the surname of the individual. No number is assigned to the first letter of the surname. If the name is Kuhne, for example, the index card will be in the "K" segment of the index. The code number for Kuhne, worked out according to the system below, is 500.

Soundex Coding Guide 
Code      Key Letters and Equivalents
1         B, P, F, V
2         C, S, K, G, J, Q, X, Z
3         D, T
4         L
5         M, N
6         R

The letters A, E, I, O, U, Y, W, and H are NOT coded.

The first letter of a surname is NOT coded.
Every Soundex number must be a three-digit number. A name yielding no code numbers, as Lee, would thus be 000; one yielding only one code number would have two zeros added, as Kuhne, coded as K 500; and a name yielding two code numbers would have one zero added, as Ebell, coded as E 140. Not more than three digits are used, Ebelson would be coded as E 142, NOT E 1425.

When two key letters or equivalents appear together, or one key letter immediately follows or precedes an equivalent, the two are coded as one letter, by a single number, as follows: Kelly, coded as 400; Buerck, coded as 620; Lloyd, coded as 300; and Schaefer, coded as 160.

When looking at a particular roll you will see that if several names are coded as K 500 -- Kam, Abraham; Kann, A; Kenny, Ann; Kohmi, August; and Kuhne, Adam -- the cards will appear in the following order, alphabetical by given name: Kann, A; Kam, Abraham; Kuhne, Adam; Kenny, Ann; and Kohmi, August. Divider cards are used to show most code numbers, but not all. For instance, one divider may be numbered 350 and the next one 400. Between the two divider cards there may be names coded 352, 350, 360, 364, 365, and 355, but instead of being in numerical order, they are interfiled and arranged alphabetically by given name.

Such prefixes to surnames as "van", "Von", "Di", "de", "le", "D", "dela", or "du" are sometimes disregarded in alphabetizing and in coding.