RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: different names same person

[pico]

Hi Joao,

I am just wondering if you enter in alternate names and then do a name search, will those alternate names be included in that search?

My program has no alternate names option like you describe. There is something for maiden names/married names.

I am hoping that the method I am using will also make it easier to print out for the books I will publish. I haven't tested it for that purpose yet, since I am decades away from publishing anything.

Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618

www.dholmes.com

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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: different names same person
From: João_Ventura <j...@venturas.org>
Date: Thu, November 14, 2013 1:21 am
To: azores@googlegroups.com

Hi Doug,

I didn't make myself clear.. The GEDCOM standard (and most genealogy programs) allow you to add an aliaas. You're the one combining them all into one with 'ou/or' which your genealogy program will not understand.

In the case you mentioned (Ana Maria ou Ana Bernarda ou Ana de SIMAS ou Ana PEREIRA de SIMAS), I'd list her with all these names, without the 'ou' in the following way:

1 NAME Ana /de Simas/
1 NAME Ana /Pereira, de Simas/
2 TYPE aka

1 NAME Ana Maria
2 TYPE aka

1 NAME Ana Bernarda
2 TYPE aka

That's assuming she used 'Ana de Simas' as her 'marriage' name or the one she used most often for her children's baptisms.

Regards,

João C. Ventura

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