*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
Sherry,
I have to disagree with you.
Over the last 20 years I have sent out over 5000 letters to families,
friends and potential relatives asking for information and usually
including some sort of report.
A field that is blank rarely prompts
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:40 AM
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
What would be the correct way to enter a person
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*From:* Susan Jones [mailto:scjo...@optusnet.com.au]
*Sent:* Monday, February 24, 2014 12:40 AM
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*Subject:* [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown
On 24 Feb 2014 15:02, Gene Young wrote:
If I know the first name but not the last I enter John [[unknown]].
Likewise if I know the last but not first I enter [[unknown]] Doe.
If I know a wife's first name but not her maiden name I enter her as Jane
[[Doe]].
There's no need to enter the
On 2/24/2014 8:18 AM, MikeFry wrote:
On 24 Feb 2014 15:02, Gene Young wrote:
If I know the first name but not the last I enter John [[unknown]].
Likewise if I know the last but not first I enter [[unknown]] Doe.
If I know a wife's first name but not her maiden name I enter her as Jane
.
Michele
Technical Support
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From: Susan Jones [mailto:scjo...@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:40 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
What would be the correct way
If you leave any unknown information blank,you can take advantage of
the Search tab Missing Information
That's such an astonishingly simple yet useful tip, especially since missing
information is so often a characteristic of genealogical research. This, along
with To-Do lists, proved among
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*From:* Susan Jones [mailto:scjo...@optusnet.com.au]
*Sent:* Monday, February 24, 2014 12:40 AM
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*Subject:* [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
What would be the correct way to enter a person, whose
If you do a search at Ancestry.com for surname Unknown, you get 366,381
hits! Imagine if someone used the work unknown in another language, like
Sconosciuto in Italian. You could spend your whole life fruitlessly looking
for the Sconosciuto relatives!
Dee
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Susan
Susan,
I don’t know what might be considered the correct way but my personal
preference is to use (_) for an unknown name. I enter everything based
on the way it reads in the narrative descendant report and I like to have the
reader see immediately where a name is unknown. Sometimes
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From: Susan Jones [mailto:scjo...@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:40 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
What would be the correct way to enter a person, whose surname you don't
know
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From: Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:50 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
Sherry,
I have to disagree with you.
Over the last 20 years I have sent out over 5000 letters
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*Sent:* Monday, February 24, 2014 12:50 PM
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*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
Sherry,
I have to disagree with you.
Over the last 20 years I have sent out over 5000 letters to families,
friends and potential relatives
their Unknown
people! Just another reason that if you don’t know what should be in the field
then leave it blank as it can be passed on to other researchers.
From: Dee
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:54 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
If you
] Entering Unknown People
If you do a search at Ancestry.com for surname Unknown, you get
366,381 hits! Imagine if someone used the work unknown in another
language, like Sconosciuto in Italian. You could spend your whole life
fruitlessly looking for the Sconosciuto relatives!
Dee
On Sun, Feb 23
Thank you to all the marvellous people who have offered assistance in entering
unknown names. I think that at this stage I will try David’s method.
Susan
Thanks David,
And I agree with you
REMEMBER that there is NO right or wrong way, just what one prefers to do and
WORKs for them.
What would be the correct way to enter a person, whose surname you don't
know?
I have many where I have the father's full name and his wife's first name
only.
Many thanks
Susan
Researching; Pegrum, Aitchison, Rafferty, Armstrong, Crawford, Haggis,
Elliott, Foley, Whitelaw, Lewry,
When I have that problem I just enter the last name as unknown.
I go back and change it if I'm ever able to find the proper surname.
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From: rfalz...@yahoo.com [mailto:rfalz...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, 24 February 2014 4:52 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
When I
Susan,
I enter husband's name followed by nee Unknown (without the quotes).
Ex: Robert Aimone and Geraldine Aimone nee Unknown.
née *adjective* \ˈnā\
—used after a married woman's name to identify the family name that she had
when she was born
Virginia
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Susan
Thank you Virginia, I like the idea of having the husband’s name there, to
assist when searching.
Susan
From: Virginia Dunham [mailto:geistdn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 24 February 2014 5:20 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
Susan
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*To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Unknown People
Susan,
I enter husband's name followed by nee Unknown (without the quotes).
Ex: Robert Aimone and Geraldine Aimone nee Unknown.
née
/adjective/ \ˈnÄ\
â
Best to leave all unknown fields blank. For dates, a good guess based on
birth years of parents or children or spouse or marriage date will help
when doing merges.
Unknown wastes ink when printing and looks terrible to me.
Jay
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On 2/23/2014 11:39 PM, Susan Jones
If all I know is the person's first name, that is all I enter. I don't
put 'unknown' or any variant of that in the surname field.
If I later find out more, I create an AKA with appropriate sources, and
then swap it for the current name.
Hope this helps. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy
Susan Jones
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