There is nothing wrong with using the name structure that you have if you want it that way. That is one of the nice things about Legacy, you can do it your way.
But if you decide to move the extra name to the Alternate Name section there are a couple of things you can do to help you navigate to those you want to find. First off, if you use the "Name List" to navigate to people, if you can click on the options button at the bottom of the window you can have it also display the Alternate names along with the regular names. And in the "Family View" you can change one of the lines that normally show: Born, Chr, Died, and Buried, to "Alternate Name". Rick Merrill ----- Original Message ----- From: Joyce To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 4:21 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Your suggestions would be appriciated Good morning: I have a situation and I am wondering if anyone have any suggestions on how I might resolve it. This is the situation: I have many John Grants in my ancestry and as you can imagine it is not easy working out who is who. How I resolved it. This is how names have been entered John (Duldraeggan) Grant John (1st of Corriemony) Grant John (6th of Glenmoriston ) (Ian a Chragain) Grant John (Mor) (1st of Glenmoriston) Grant This is only a small sampling but will give you the idea. My question. If I were to comply with the program's wish to remove all but "John Grant" and put the rest under "AKA" is there any way that I can make up a list of all the AKA's so that I can quickly find the the correct John Grant I might be looking for? Using a wife's name doesn't work very well. Thanks Joyce Nagy 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
