Thank you everyone for your comments and ideas on this topic. I feel I will go with recording the name firstly as I find it the way it was first recorded either parish register or census and record any differences after that as an altenate name.
This was my first post and I received back to my own email address 5 copies of this posting. I do not know why and I hope that no one else received this post 5 times, if so I apologies but I have no idea how it happened. Cheers Lea-Anne Davison On 4 September 2010 10:07, Jan Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > And in the case where there has been an actual name change (e.g. by Deed > Poll) I use the name by which the person was known after the change as the > main name. I also add a 'Deed Poll' Event which explains the name change in > full. > > Cheers > Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 3 September 2010 19:29 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Alternate name recording > > As far as which is the "main" name goes, I usually choose the one which > is used to record the person's birth (if known) but sometimes that is a > different spelling to what is nearly always used after that, so then I > use the more common one. > > -- > 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 > > > > 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
