If the person is indexed under the name, incorrect as it may be, how will you find them again in other places which derive their data from the original place which contains the error without having recorded that spelling error as an AKA? Yes you said you put the name as it was recorded in the source transcription but the AKA is a more visible place to see that somewhere his name was recorded with that transcription error.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 09-Jan-2014 9:20 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: snip > > What I would almost certainly NOT do is enter any of those names in the > AKA field, which I reserve for other names by which a person was > actually known, not for spelling errors, typos etc. I know that if a > person is named, for example, John Clark, I need to look for Clark, > Clarke, Clerk - with all the variations of John - and if I cite a Source > where he is referred to as Jno Clarke I think anyone can see the > connection to John Clark. If John Clarke is brought up by his > stepfather Mr Brown and regularly uses the name John Brown, then that is > an AKA and needs to be recorded as such. > 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
