Ron Why not use the “exclude from potential problems”? There is a check box in standardization to ignore letters withot a period.
Don Brown Orangeville, Ontario Canada From: Ron Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 9:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Standardisation Tips window - Periods for Initials The reason I mentioned this "initial without a period" is because in the past such a single letter in the name was identified by surrounding it with quote marks as Glade "S" Price. This would indicate that the S was not an abbreviation but just the letter. Now the use of quote marks in Legacy is to indicate a nickname or preferred name so something else is needed to identify a single letter name and not just exclude it from potential problems. It may be too trivial for a standard to be adopted but as several others have commented it has obviously not been resolved. Ron Taylor --- On Sun, 5/30/10, Dave Naylor <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dave Naylor <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Standardisation Tips window - Periods for Initials To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 5:57 PM On 30 May 2010 Ron Taylor wrote: > While on this topic it should be pointed out that there are a few > names with a single letter that does not represent an abbreviation > of some name but is just a letter. Example: Glade S Price has an > S in his name but it does not stand for anything...it's just an S > without a period. What is the standard for entering such names? I have lots of these in my tree where a single letter was used as a middle name to denote the family. All siblings received the same middle "name" letter. I identify these in my tree by *not* having a period/dot after them. Where I have a middle initial but not the full middle name I place a period/dot after the initial letter. Obviously I do not want Legacy adding, removing or changing these subtle identifiers. Cheers, -- Dave -- David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. --- Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
