Jenny: Just to clarify, I don't use the automatic search within Legacy either and don't know how it functions regarding diacriticals. I'm just saying that my René-Bernard Des Lauriers posted at RootsWeb, for example, would be invisible to anyone who searched the site for Rene Bernard DesLauriers so I enter a couple of different versions as alternate names.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Alternate Name vs. AKA Event On 07/08/2010 03:46, Kirsten Bowman wrote: > My source citations also include alternate spellings exactly as they > were written, but names included in source citations aren't found in > Internet searches. I also like to use diacriticals in names but > those aren't found either, so I have them with diacriticals in the > preferred spelling and without as an alternate name. Yes, I suppose it is useful if you are going to do "automatic" Internet searches. Personally, I prefer to have more control and I never use the Internet Search functions in Legacy. (Good thing I said "I don't understand why..." and not "There is no need to ..."!!) -- 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
