Besides putting their most commonly "known" name in quotes in the GIVEN
field, you should also put their "known" name in the AKA list. Then, in
the name list (and/or in the Index), you can turn on "include alternate
names". This way the person will show up in your list twice (or three
times, etc - depending on how many names they were known by). This
option is easily turned on & off for times when you want the shorter
list or the complete list.
In other words:
* in the GIVEN field, you would have: Jane Mary "Mary"
* In A.K.A., you would have:
Jane Smith
Jane Mary Smith
Jane M. Smith
Mary Smith
Mary J. Smith (maybe??? - depends on what you find)
Mary Jane Smith (again - maybe - depends on what you find)
J. M. Smith
etc
Of course the A.K.A. can (and often should) include other "nick-names"
or "pet names" if the person was actually known by these other names on
any documents or even if they were known by the nick-name in general
public (because, for example, they may be listed that way in a newspaper
article).
On 01/02/2012 05:52, Jenny M Benson wrote:
> On 02/01/2012 10:10, BF wrote:
>> Is there a way to search for a middle name in the index? Some folks go
>> by their middle name and when I don't rem their 'unused' first name I
>> have to search through the surname. Just a nuisance with the relatively
>> small tree I'm working on now, but will be a bigger problem when I start
>> working on my families. Didn't see it addressed in archives since 09.
> If a person is known by any name which is not the first given name, you
> should enter their full Forename as follows:
>
> Jane Mary "Mary" or Henry "Hal".
>
> In Reports you can choose to Use Quoted Name for Narratives and Remove
> Quoted Given Names so you report might read Jane Mary Doe was born ....
> Mary married ..."
>
> You can search for these people by using the Detailed Search and
> selecting Given Names / Contains / "Mary" or Given Names / Contains / "Hal".
>
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