Wow thanks everyone. I an floored with all the great tips and responses. I
was thinking I would have to go in manually and change all of these, but, I
will now remember to put in the a.k.a. and the sources. I look at several
different sources for my material. I have found that online the names are
spelled every which way, even in the same tree! I find in different book which
I have researched or purchased that the name is spelled differently in some of
them. I am going to have this same problem with my Wordell family Woodel,
Wordell, Wodel, Woodell, Wardell, the list goes on and on. I now know what to
do. Thanks so much for taking your time with me I appreciate the tips. I have
some work to do, so I will sign off. Let me know if I can help you in some
way. Jodi
On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 3:22 AM, Terry <[email protected]>
wrote:
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{}#yiv6881188609 It’s not a mess, it’s normal... I keep them as what they were
known as. There are often problems created by well-meaning but unknowing
people, if you remember the movie when the Godfather goes through Ellis Island
as a child the worker didn’t understand Italian too well, asked him where he
came from, and promptly renamed him Corleone. I see you have a bunch of
Dutch/Flemish names, if it helps the “van” should be separated from the
surname, it’s like Mac in Scotland/Ireland or like Bar in Jewish lines.
Sometimes you may get further when you search without the “van” (of) or the
“van der” (of the). Again I have noticed that in the US these names tend to
have been compressed into a single word, eg Vanderbilt (van der Bilt). The end
of the surname often tells you where they came from originally, eg my wife has
“van wyk” in her tree, the “wyk” bit narrows down to a locality. I have “van
Lelyveld” in my line, also spelled Leliveld (lily field), I always search on
“Lelyveld” first. The Dutch baptism (doop) registers are available via the net.
I try to find some evidence of how the individual spelled their name. Same with
census takers... Again, eg, my Turner line is Scots, when my GGGF came to ZA he
married an Afrikaans girl. One of their children was named Katherina, but she
preferred using the English version – Catherine. When it came to signing for
her share of the inheritance guess which name she used? You’re right,
Katherina! Money is a powerful influence. If it really worries you, you can
always choose the majority surname, eg Couwenhoven with the other surname in
the notes, or to make it easier for searching just put the other surname in
brackets, eg Couwenhoven (Kouwenhoven), or vice versa. Just add a note (and a
source) to the surname for those who will follow you, or who you share data
with. Legacy also has the ability to make bulk changes so once you’ve decided
how you want to record them, it’s easy to effect the changes. Terry in South
Africa From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Jodi
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 19:54
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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