In my opinion you’re in for a manual editing procedure to change the spelling to whatever a particular family used during their lifetimes. And please note that siblings and parents often used different spellings. For example, I have some parents with the spelling of HANSEN but the children are listed as HANSON. I even have gravestones where the children are buried next to the parents but their surnames are spelled differently.
Be careful of how other sources may spell the name as sometimes they want to keep the same spelling of the name for everybody especially if they are related and have the same surname. I tend to use the spelling as each person used it during their lifetime. The difficulty of that occurs when there are various documents for a person and even then the spelling varies. In those cases, try to remember that most of those documents were completed by a 3rd party person who wrote down what he thought he heard or how he thought it was spelled. The gravestones are usually the final answer (no pun intended) but even then the gravestones are purchased by survivors who may wish to utilize their particular spelling and not as how the deceased spelled it. Sometimes there just isn’t a right or wrong answer. Just add notes to describe the conflicts. Brian in CA From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jodi Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] what a mess In my genealogy, I have some names Couwenhoven, Kouwenhoven, VanCouwenhoven, VanKouwenhoven, VanCouwenhoven, Conover, Konover, and Covenhoven. I have put them in my genealogy pages, they are mostly mixed up now I have some of the same with the different spellings of the last name, but they were from different sources and I had no idea they were the same people, so now I have this mess in my tree, how do I fix this tangle of mess? Thank you for your time.
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