Help:Surname categories grouped by initial letters

The "Search" function is not perfect. To find a particular surname category out of the thousands, browsing though the whole of Category:Surnames is not appealing unless your target name comes early in the "A's". We are planning a work-around for this. Until it is working, one option is a simple search using the surname; but if that produces a very long list of pages try this:
 * http://genealogy.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=Z&namespace=14, then you should see a box with "Display pages with prefix:"; if (as is likely) you've seen enough "Z" categories, replace the Z by whatever initial letter or group of letters you like and hit Enter; if the resulting list is too long for comfort, add another letter to the group in the box and try again.

(The same trick works for other namespaces - just change the final "14" to another number. We may repeat this hint in other places relating to other namespaces that produce long hitlists.)

Shortcut for the above process
(This list can be expanded ad infinitum, but for maximum convenience it should be broken into separate pages when it gets to be longer than one average screen. No need to subdivide just to look uniform if a link produces less than a screenful of names.)


 * A
 * Aa
 * Ab
 * Ac


 * B


 * C


 * D
 * E
 * F
 * G
 * H
 * I
 * J
 * K
 * L
 * M
 * N
 * O
 * P
 * Q
 * R
 * S
 * T
 * U
 * V
 * W
 * X
 * Y
 * Z