I agree with John For database purpose i do the modern spelling, i hate having duplicates and with diferent spellings its hard to keep your database in order, and i make a note of how it was spelled on the documents or known as ,
I know that John Vasconcelos doesn't agree with spelling names other than the way they are written, but its the choice I made with over 140,000 + database it would make hard for me to connect people. George pacheco On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In a message dated 7/5/2010 12:01:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > 1) Looks like Pacheco to me. > 2) I'm not an expert by any stretch but does Frs definitely mean > Fernandes? Because I think I remember seeing it multiple times in the > older Rosario casamentos after names. > > Frz = Fernandes > Roiz = Rodrigues > > I used to preserve the old spellings when I started but I eventually > standardized the spelling. No more Joam, Josepha or Ignácio, among others; > it is all João, Josefa and Inácio now. It makes looking things up in the > data base much, much easier. > > John Miranda Raposo > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when > they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- http://www.geocities.com/bretanha1954/ -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
