Couldn't you also use the "Residence name" to determine the residence to create a Residence event?
Sherry On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Linda Greethurst <llg...@gmail.com> wrote: > The patronym IS the normal surname if you are researching those areas who > have subscribed to that practice. If a surname ends in a variation of > "son, sen" or "datter, dotter" then you KNOW it was a patronym. Anything > else identifies a residence where they lived at some point in their life. > Those other names often changed within a person's lifetime. So for > example, if Ole Petersen lived in one place when he was baptized, but lived > somewhere else when he was married and lived a third place when he died, he > would have 3 different "residence names" but he was still Ole Petersen. > The inclusion of the residence in a name was a means of separating > individuals who also had the name of Ole Petersen. In Legacy I use the > AKA's to identify the residence name. By the way, I have 27 direct line > Ole Olsen's in my family tree and that residence name keeps them all unique > individuals (along with the RIN that Legacy assigns them). > Linda Greethurst > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Thomas Wildeboer <twildeb...@gmx.de> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> my east-frisian (part of north germany) ancestors have patronymic names. >> In my old genealogy-programm i could enter the patronymic name in a special >> field. There I could search for patronymic names as surname, the persons >> are listed under the patronymic in surname list, in reports I can set a >> special format (italic or bold) for the patronym, so I can see that it is >> nor a "normal" surname. That is important for the search of further >> ancestors, because the father has not the same patronym for surname as the >> child, from the patronym i only can get the fathers first name e. g. father >> of Harm Jansen has the first name Jan and the patronym of Jan could be >> Otten, Pieters, Harmsen.... >> >> The patronym is not only used in northern germany, it is also used in >> netherlands, island and scandinavian countries. So I hope that Legacy can >> handle it correct. >> >> Is there a special "control character" to mark a surname as patronym? How >> can I list persons under the patronym in surname lists? How can i format >> the patronym in reports and maybe also for screen-output/views? >> For your answers and tipps I thank you in advance. >> >> Regards, >> Thomas >> >> -- >> >> LegacyUserGroup mailing list >> LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com >> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe >> http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com >> Archives at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >> >> > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/ > mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > >
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