Ron: And as I said, that's why I include the text exactly as written under Text/Details in the Source Citation.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 1:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Alternate name recording Kirsten, Whilst, more or less, I record AKAs in the same way as yourself, I do note enumerato's or indexer's transcript errors in a note. This will help others trying to find the orginal documents for themselves. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Kirsten Bowman wrote: > Hello Lea-Anne: > > > What I *don't* do is list every variation from every record as an > alternate name. Where a clerk or census enumerator really botched > the spelling it shows up in the Source Citation since I record text > exactly as it was shown in the original. > > Don't struggle too hard with getting everything exactly right at the > outset. Legacy has a multitude of features that are best learned by > doing, and that takes time. Fortunately several of those features > make it very easy for you to change your mind or your method later. > That's not true in all cases, but it does remove some of the > pressure. > > Kirsten 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
