The Harry S Truman example! Note that even Harry himself, in his official documents, used a period, even though the "S" stood for nothing specific.
To the original point, has the standard actually changed such that periods are no longer appropriate, or is this just a texting shortcut that should be ignored in Legacy (and elsewhere)? I do notice this on websites such as Ancestry and services like HeritageQuest, neither of which apply a period after a middle inital. I hadn't much thought about it unitl now. Scott On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Dave Naylor <dcnay...@bell.net> wrote: > 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<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<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/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
