Find similar last names

Question

Does anyone know where (websites) to find similar last names or last names that sound similar??

Thanks

Answer 1

This is the biggest:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...

Most genealogy search sites have a feature called "Soundex". If you search for "Pack", for example, with soundex turned on, you get Peck and Puck too. The Mormons (above) have it as the default. You have to click on "Use Exact Spelling" to turn it off. The rest that I have seen, Ancestry and Roots Web, have "Exact" as the default, and you have to change it to "Soundex".

Go to the site above, use "John" for a first name and enter the surname you are interested in. You should get several variations.