I put my Swedish and Norwegian names in the "surname" box and the farm names in the suffix box (for my Norwegian folks). I make sure the box is marked in the options section for not automatically including the father's surname and I am good to go. You will note in the Swedish and Norwegian church records and censuses that their names are listed "given name patronymic" and that is how I find them in those records - so that is how I input them in my program. They are also identified with their RIN and MRIN as appropriate (and it helps keep track of the several Elof Larssons and Marin Persdotters). I put their aka for when they changed their names here in America so I have more than one way to find them. AND that is the point of a database program - how are you going to find your people. NOTHING is cast in stone, make your program work for you.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Marg Strong <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- *Tessa Keough* *Guild No. 5089* *Legacy Virtual Users Group * *Surnames - Keough, Murphy, Aylward, Kocevar, Lidman, Zagradisnik* *Places - Ireland, Newfoundland, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, USA (New York, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Washington)* *Blogs - The Keough Corner and Scandia Musings & More* 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
