Small group?? Before 1811 many, many people in the Netherlands were only known by their patronym. All dutch orientated genprogs have a field for patronymes. The dutch translators for Legacy are asking and begging for such a field. Yes we can put in into the sunamefield. But it is not a surname. Some users put a patronym into the given name field. However it is not a given name. Besides that some patronymes changed into a real surname. So you cannot always say as you see such a name: this is a patronym and that is a surname. Only for that reason alone we need an apart field for patronymes.
Furthermore this is not a dutch problem alone. Many other translationteams are asking for a patronymfield ( or similar ) for years. (At least since version 2). We are hoping it comes with version 8. This is one of the features what is really needed to transfer Legacy into a real international genprog as it is advertised. Bert Dutch translationteam. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tessa" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday 27 April 2012 0:27 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Patronym with no surname I thought that was the case Bill - and I make use of customization so that pesky father's surname is not automatic. Tessa On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- *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). 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