Denis I use PAF (Personal Ancestral File) and in the Preferences you can unclick the field that says "use Father's last name for child". In this way I can put in the names as I see fit. Also on the first page of PAF where the name, birth,death dates are entered, there is a place for AKA (also known as) and that is where I put the variations. I usually put the most popular/most used name as my first choice then under the AKA I will list the others. .I have an Domingos Antonio de Souza who will sometimes be listed as Domingos Antonio Soares and I list him under Souza with Soares as the AKA. For the women with only religious names I do not list a surname at all it is only Marie de Jesus (all lower case NOT Marie DE JESUS! I also capitalize my Surnames (also shown in the preferences). So in PAF you have to type it as Maria de Jesus/ (the slash has to be at the end so that the whole names does not capitalize. If it was Marie de Jesus de /Azevedo / the forward slashes indicate the Surname and it will capitalize just the Azevedo. Rosemarie >
Address to the group: > I am seeking input in how others have chosen to enter data in their > genealogy software programs (Family Tree Maker, etc.). The software is > programmed to assume that children have the same surname as the male > parent, and so automatically give that surname to each child. This of > course is very saving in keystrokes for cultures that follow this > practice. > The Portuguese do not. > > In Portugese genealogy, the baptism/birth records the child with his/her > first name only (at least in Santa Maria Island records), eg Manoel. If > Manoel dies as an infant or young child, he dies as Manoel. If he lives > until perhaps Confirmation or until he is a young man, he may die as > Manoel > José. When he marries he may choose to be known as Manoel José using his > father's surname, his mother's, sometimes a combining of both, and > sometimes an entirely different surname (perhaps coming from an as yet > unidentified source by the genealogist). > > In addition, if we choose to compile whole family data, rather than only > ancestral direct lines, we find that our hypothetical now married, Manoel > José de Moura, is often identified with variants of his name in the > records > of his children. > > And all of the above exists also for females. > > It is therefore misleading I believe to accept Family Tree Maker's > automatically given surname. Should not the surname be assigned only when > actually known? > > I am wondering how others have treated this myriad of identities for the > same individual when entering names into their family files. > Denis > > -- > 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." -- 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."
