On 6 Oct 2010 Jerry wrote: > Does anyone know why a message from the Legacy program states that > "all initials should be followed by a period"? I am now accustomed to > not using periods in abbreviations because it is the new "computerized" > way of doing things. Does anyone really see a problem with any of that?
Yes! In early Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and no doubt other provinces/states) some families used a single letter as a middle "name" in order to identify their children. So all children of the same parents had the same middle "initial" in their name. In Legacy, I identify these from actual initials (where the middle name is unknown) by *not* having a full-stop/period after them. Where the letter is an initial for an unknown name it *is* followed by a full-stop/period. Obviously if I know the middle name it is written in full. Cheers! -- Dave N. -- 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
