I haven't even begun to address this problem. Instead of surnames, the children have "last names" that indicate they are the son of so and so, or the daughter of so and so. Trying to figure out which record (and source) belongs to which person in ancestry.com is impossible for me; most of them are written in Danish to make it more difficult. I have a distant relative who has done extensive research and had someone help her with translations, so this is one case where I use her records (with her permission, of course.) She has sent me explanations of the naming conventions, that eventually I will have to wrap my head around. but for now there is a lot I have to do before getting that far. The records will be there for future generations if I don't have time to start digging into them.
>________________________________ > From: Tessa <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:33 PM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Patronym with no surname > > >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 > > > 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
