The Legacy Help Topic for Alternate Names begins as follows:
Many times you will find that a person's name is represented in more
than one way. Either the spelling of the name will differ in various sources
or the name will be completely different. Sometimes names were changed when a
person immigrated to a new country. Sometimes names were recorded wrong
because of misunderstandings or bad transcription. Many people go by
different names as they grow up, going from nickname to nickname. All of these
names should be recorded because you never know when a variation will be used
in a new source.
Legacy is flexible enough that people can use it in many different ways. How
we choose to use the features is up to each one of us. I would never say to
another user "you should NOT" do something unless what they plan to do would
break something in the program.
Mary
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