If you use 2 brackets on either side of whatever you put between, it
becomes invisible in some reports.
For unknown maiden names I do the follow:
Johnie Doe is the husband, his wife is Sally UNKNOWN
In Sally's surname field I enter [[JohnieDoe]]
This way, when I see her name in a list I can more readily identify who
she is.
I also have a tag for unknown surnames. When I want to work on missing
surnames, I Search on the tag number.
Everybody seems to have their way of dealing with unknown names, mostly
it depends on how you want that person to look in reports, charts, and
if you do or do not want to use Legacy's built in search for missing data.
Cheers
Elizabeth
Legacy user since March 2008
On 9/12/2016 3:26 PM, Georges Sarrazin wrote:
If I remember, some years ago, someone suggested to use [--?--], and
almost everybody at that time supported that suggestion.
Georges
*De :*LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]]
*De la part de* Sherry
*Envoyé :* 12 septembre 2016 16:18
*À :* Legacy User Group <[email protected]>
*Objet :* Re: [LegacyUG] Identification of "UnKnown" name
Everyone's going to have their own idea on this... I leave any unknown
info blank.
Why??
1. Legacy's Missing Information tab in the Search window won't find it
as missing information if you have anything in that data field
2. Insert Underlines for Missing..... in book reports won't insert
underlines if there's anything in the field.
If you want to enter any data in a field that you're not sure of, I
would strongly recommend making a To-Do to search out the correct
information.
Sherry
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Pete Beatty <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I am a little confused on how to properly identify a missing
portion of a Name. I have numerous entries were the current
person’s name partially known. Is there a accepted identifier
that can be used to signify “UNKNOWN”? I currently use “Unknown”
for either portion of the name.
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