Re: [LegacyUG] A person with no name

[Boyd Miller]

My approach to people who exist but are not known to me is this. If you have •    a second marriage but you don’t know who the first spouse was - put “not known” (all lower case) as a given name •    known to be siblings but don’t know either of the parents - put surname (same as siblings) for father only, leave mother blank •    mother and children but don’t know the father  - put “not known” as father’s given name (not surname) so as not to compromise the children’s surname •    father and children but no mother  - put “not known” as a mother’s given name. In the absence of a name Legacy sometimes introduces “Unknown”, so to distinguish from this my choice is usually “not known“ in the given name field, You can always find these not known "people" from a given name sort of the name list.  These people are not *Unknown* - somewhere there will be a name, but to me at this time they are just *not known*. Boyd On 14/05/2011 1:23 a.m., marilyn E B wrote: Could you give them a location first name (Mouth of Wolf River) and unknown in whatever form as a surname. This was just suggested on another list as the way to identify individuals when you have numerous John Smiths. They suggested counties but you would need a more finite location. Marilyn On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Dick Rhindress <dick.rhindr...@gmail.com> wrote: We have found several instances where it is clear that a person existed, but so far there has been no evidence of a name or familial relationship.  The evidence and anecdotal information is strong enough that we want to put these people into Legacy because if I don't we'll probably lose track of them.  And I do expect that sooner or later we'll stumble upon the rest of the facts.  So, is there a convention for what to do with the name fields when you don't have even a guess about names, or AKAs? I know this sounds rather off the wall to folks doing family trees, but I'm involved with a "Community History" project recording 300+ years of people who have lived in town. Legacy is really pretty useful for organizing this data because much of the data is truly the genealogy of a web of families who lived here a long time, intermarried, etc. but these "nameless" individuals are challenging us. - RcR   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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, and it starts your day differently." Johnny Cash 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp