I've got that problem with a Danish line. Very confusing. Haven't tried to address it as yet. Hope you get an answer!
>________________________________ > From: d <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:43 AM >Subject: [LegacyUG] Patronym with no surname > > >Legacy has a surname field, but no field for a patronym. (This gap seems >fairly common among genealogy software.) This means that one must choose to >treat a patronym as either a given (usually middle) name or as a surname. >Neither of these approaches is really correct and either brings challenges >with indexing, reporting, grouping families, creating gedcoms, submitting to >nFS, etc. This is an issue for many generations of my Scandinavian ancestry, >who did not have surnames until the late 19th or early 20th century. Is there >a standard way or strategy that others handle this? > > > 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
