I have added an "Alt. Spelling" event and record misspellings there. Or sometimes (especially with census records) I might have it in the Event Notes. For example, Lizzie was enumerated as "Lissie". Like Jenny, I would not use "AKA" if there is no proof the person was known by that name. Then there're "quoted" names and nicknames, too, right? All less "serious" than the AKA functionality. I don't want someone showing up in the Name List (Index?) more times than necessary, or useful for my research purposes. --Paula
________________________________ From: Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] When to use AKAs On 09/01/2014 17:19, Brian/Support wrote: > 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. It may be more visible there, but in my view it implies that the person WAS KNOWN by that different version of the name, which is not so. I have one instance in my database where a whole family was listed in the Census with the wrong surname. (Probably an error of the Enumerator made when copying from the original forms to the books which we see.) It would cause no end of confusion if I implied that the Ashworths were also known as the Birtwistles. On the other hand, I have a family where the father and several children were known for some years as Dinnage rather than Pitt and so they have Dinnage recorded as an AKA. -- Jenny M Benson 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
