As I am producing reports for myself and other rellies (who couldn’t care less about, nor even know about the existence of, “standards”) I always capitalise surnames – when I enter data and when I type any sentence. This carries over to letters / emails I write in the course of my research. My reason? I have numerous families who use past surnames as Christian names and I like to make it clear that a particular name is a surname. If I just typed John Loring anywhere it could mean any one of possibly 100 men whose first two Christian names are John Loring, with a variety of surnames, or John, whose surname is Loring. Besides, I do it as a matter of habit - as a teacher in a previous life I always wrote name lists in the form of Mary BROWN, or sometimes BROWN, Mary.
Cheers Jan From: Michele Lewis [mailto:ancestor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 22:35 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File I don’t do anything in all caps either. When I am writing a formal report, I do follow the modified register system which puts the surname in all small caps (2 points smaller than the rest of the text) the first timeadirectline ancestor is introduced. michele From: David C Abernathy [mailto:da...@schmeckabernathy.com] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:11 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File In my opinion there should be NOTHING in all caps. Some surnames have embedded caps and some do not, but they are spelt the same way, except for the caps. As for states and countries, no way either. We do not need to be shouting in our data. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Jerry Peterson [mailto:jerrysemailgro...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:40 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: Asa Brown Sample File Of course, I met put the name of the COUNTRY and SURNAMES in ALL CAPS - I did not say that quite right. Thanks. --Jerry On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Jerry Peterson <jerrysemailgro...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Sherry or to whom it may concern: I opened up the sample file that Legacy always ships with the downloads and noticed that it has not yet been changed to the new standard United States. It still has USA. Just bringing this to your attention if the programmers want to make sure it is set to the new standard in the sample file that many new users might look at. On a side note, I always capitalize the name of the COUNTRY because I want it to stand out the same way that many of us choose to have Legacy capitalize all the SURNAMES. As far as I know, this won't cause any problems with gedcoms, except I'm not positive if some of the programs might try to change it back to just initial capitals. Does anyone know? Thanks, Jerry Boor - http://www.MerriamFamilyTree.org 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
