Thanks - seems there are still so many "grey" areas - one could wish for better standardization, but that would not make a lot of us happy if we disagreed, so I guess we just continue doing what makes sense to us. --Jerry
On 01/13/2012 12:31 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 13/01/2012 15:52, Jerry wrote: >> What field do you think should be used for different spellings, if not AKA? > Well, it's not so much a case of what field *should* be as what field > (if any) I or anyone else *chooses* to use! Personally, I don't use any > field as such. > > Example. I have a family named Mathews, but quite often the name > appears as Matthews. If Matthews appears in a Birth, Marriage or Death > Index, for example, I will write Matthews as the Surname in the Source > template. If Matthews appears on a Census my Event Description, where > where I write all the info from the Census for each person, will show > the Matthews spelling and in the Source I will write "household of ... > Matthews" > > I use the AKA field only for cases where a person had an "official" > name, but was also known by a different name, such a cousin of mine > whose forenames were Horatio John but he was almost always called Peter, > both within and without his family. I don't put nicknames or > abbreviations in the AKA field, either. > 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
