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3 unusual facts about Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex


Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex

To address the large number of false positive results generated by the D–M Soundex, Stephen P. Morse and Alexander Beider created the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching algorithm.

Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex (D–M Soundex) is a phonetic algorithm invented in 1985 by Jewish genealogists Gary Mokotoff and Randy Daitch.

Where Once We Walked

The main list is followed by an additional listing organized according to a phonetic index based on the Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex system.


Stephen P. Morse

He is also the co-author with linguist Alexander Beider of the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm.


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