My family is from Iceland and we still use patronymics to this day. I always put this in for the last name unless the family has adopted a surname ( those living outside Iceland usually) I fail to see how it could be considered any thing else. The only feature in Legacy that is a very minor hang up is the last name is automatically created when adding a father or children. It is such a minor thing that it is not worth mentioning as it only applies to such a small group of people.
Thanks, Bill Runolfsson. In a message dated 4/26/2012 1:03:28 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: According to the book, “Getting It Right” by Mary H. Slawson (who uses Legacy for her examples)…. The patronymic names goes in the surname field UNLESS the person legally added a surname in which case it goes in the given name field (page 44-45). Michele From: d [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:43 AM To: [email protected] 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 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 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
