Or for absolute certainty while scanning a list of name : Mr Ms as appropriate to the known gender.
MOST folks are clever enough to realize no one uses Mr or Ms as a given name, it is a blinking flag that more research needs doing, but it pops off the printed page so when I'm going down a printed alpha list that isn't color-coded. Then too -- some newspaper announcements of marriages do refer to the out-of-town party as "Mr. Smith" or "Miss Jones". May not be a "best practice" but it tells me what I want to know and at first glance. Cheryl Brian/Support wrote: > There are two conventions common in genealogy that you might consider > using which would not require entering anything extra: > > Put the surname Peter in All Caps: PETER > Surround the surname with slashes: /Peter/ > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > On 30/06/2014 12:42 PM, lio . wrote: >> In sourcing a birth registration, the first name is blank (or rather has >> a line across the column " -------- '). >> >> When using SourceWriter, it asks for the "ID of the Person". Recording >> only the surname "Peter", could easily be misread as the person's first >> name. Would you instead use "[first name blank] Peter" (without the quotes)? >> >> Thanks for your direction, >> >> leo 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
