Thank you very much for all the input. Sounds like there's no cardinal rule on it anymore, so we can do as we see fit....
Jerry On 10/6/2010 5:01 PM, Scott Hall wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 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
