Brit milah. The brit milah (Hebrew: ×Ö°Ö¼×¨Ö´××ª ×Ö´××Ö¸×â, pronounced; Ashkenazi pronunciation:, covenant of circumcision; Yiddish pronunciation: bris ) is a Jewish religious male circumcision ceremony performed by a mohel (circumciser) on the eighth day of a male infant's life.
An example of a 1930 Soundex Card. Photo courtesy of the National Archives. The Soundex is a coded surname index (using the first letter of the last name and three digits) based on the way a name sounds rather than the way it's spelled. Surnames that sound the same but are spelled differently - such as Smith and Smyth - have the same code and are filed together.
Soundex Coding Rules. Robert C. Russell originally developed the Soundex system in 1918 (US Patent No 1,261,167 Russell). It was further developed in 1922 by Russell and Margaret K. Odell (US Patent 1,435,663 Russel and Odell). This is an image from the original patent application.