I think it depends on what your purpose is. Do you just want to be able to see the nickname in your Legacy program when you have his information up? Or are you concerned about including his 'best' nickname in a report? If you want his name to always print 'Robert "Bobby" Eugene' then go ahead and put it in the first name field. If you just want to have it immediately available to you when Legacy is open, just add the AKA to one of the fields that shows up. You don't have to use the preset fields. I do that because I have so many AKAs that it is helpful for me to see them without having to click over to the AKA window. Some will say you 'shouldn't' put the "Bobby" in the first name field, but it's really just up to you to decide what suits your personal preferences the best. I always try to think about the next person who will be using my data and what will make sense to them.
Kathy On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Robert E. Carneal < [email protected]> wrote: > I swore this would never happen. I finally found some ancestors for > whom have more than one AKA or more than one Nickname. How best to > handle that in the name fields? Just pick the one I think was his/her > most used AKA and run with that? I surely can't do this: > > Robert "Robby" "Bobby" "Bob" "Rob" "Gene" Eugene > > For the first name field. Reports would not interpret that correctly. > Just choose one, say "Bobby" and run with that? So that it looks like: > > Robert "Bobby" > > in the first name field? And that way, "Bobby" would get used in > reports. And put the other AKAs/Nicknames in the AKA field instead. > Would that be the best approach? > > Thank you. > > Robert > > > 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/[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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog > (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com<http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> > ). > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > -- Kathy Meyer Technology is both blessing and curse, depending on what it's doing for you (or to you) on any particular day. 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 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
