You can post alternate spellings on Ancestry. Look around the page and you'll see the box to submit your informed transcription of the name. It's easy, and will help others.
Dee Whiting On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:49 AM, John Magyari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While searching for my Grandfather 1920 Census via ancestry.com > ancestry had my grandfather's surname indexed Mazzari, with a Yellow > triangle next to it indicating other possible names Maggard > > When I look at the original it is correctly spelled > Magyari > > Since the original image has it spelled correctly, but a search via > ancestry,com has it indexed via Mazzari and Maggard (index does NOT have > Magyari) which are incorrect transcriptions, but in ancestry's index. > > 1) How would you place this info in Legacy, so others could potential find > in future? > a) AKAs Mazzari and Maggard ?????????? > b) just in notes????????? > > 2) I run into a similar issue with the 1910 Census > here the index has it written incorrectly > Magdyar > I would assume here I really would use a AKA, correct??? > > thanks, > jdm > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp> > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
