The best guideline I've seen for this situation is _Getting It Right_ by Mary H. Slawson. (I bought my copy from the Legacy store.) Slawson has a full 100 pages on how to handle names and titles using Legacy screens for her examples. Although many people make up their own rules for entering this data, Slawson's book is heavily oriented toward LDS members doing temple work, so perhaps following her suggestions would bring up more hits in the IGI or other LDS databases.
The guidelines are far too extensive to quote here, so I'd suggest you invest in the book. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of nconway...@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:02 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] entering royal titles I'm having a problem searching for IGI names. I haven't been able to find any guidance on how to enter royal titles into genealogy programs. Typically royals don't have formal surnames prior to the early 1900's so where exactly do you put their title? Do you put the entire title as their surname, i.e, Duke of Windsor? Do you break it up - Prefix: Duke Suffix: of Windsor. I've noticed that if I use the IGI search, I get a lot of zero results. But if I go to the family search site I get results for the same person. Example, I have Ferdinand Karl Archduke of Austria in my database, entered as First Name: Ferdinand Karl , Surname:Archduke of Austria. IGI search in Legacy returns zero hits. If I go to the website and enter First Name: Ferdinand Karl Archduke of Surname:Austria I get 3 results. However, not all records are like that. I'm confused....What is the actual standard for this? Thanks a bunch NConway 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
