Spelling of names can be very variable. Because your surname is e.g. McMeekin doesn't mean your relations spelt their name the same way. You could be related to McMeeking or McMeikan and more. So when searching you need to try and include all possible variations.
There are several options on scotlandspeople, name variants, soundex
I personally use wildcards using an asterisk to represent any number of letters or no letters.
When searching for Muncie, I know they are often recorded as Munsie so a search on
MUN*IE will return both.
Ballantine can be spelt lots of ways
BAL*NT* will return Balantine, Ballantine, Balantyne, Ballantyne.
Ballantine may sometimes turn up as Bannatine so try that too. But searching on BA*NT* may bring you too many returns.
Note that it is often the vowels that change, so replacing them with an asterisk is a good strategy.
Just be glad you are not searching for McMeekin as I have had mcmeckan, mcmeikan, mcmickan, mcmiekin, mcmekine, mcmeeking, mcmekien, mcmeicken, mcmecken, mcmeken, mcmekin…
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