The further back in history you go, the more documents, books, genealogies, IPMs, Close Rolls, etc., that you research, the more essential it is to have all the alternate names in your Name List of Index.
You will never have a clue that some of the people mentioned are related to anyone in your database unless you have these old, often foreign, often foreign alliterations, and names changed to match a place or estate, or takingyour wife's name, to say nothing of earldoms. And, as far as long-time "Englished" names, many of the spellings are not even close to how they are spelled now! After all, English spelling did not begin to be standardized until after Johnson's Dictionary of 1755. CE -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 2:25 PM I don't actually understand why people see a need to include alternate spellings in the AKA fields. I record alternate spellings as and where they occur, so this might be in the Event Description or the BMD Notes and in the Source Citation. People weren't usually "known by" these alternate spellings, they were just something that cropped up sometimes when their name was written down. -- Jenny M Benson 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
