Not sure that there is any formal statement on use of mixed case
surnames so here is my take on the change.
All Uppercase surnames are a holdover from the days BC (before computer)
where genealogical records and reports were either hand written or
typewritten. All Uppercase surnames were used to highlight and give
emphasis to surnames making them more visible.
Nowadays it is so easy to have the computer change the display and/or
output of surnames in all uppercase when needed that now it is just
easier to use Initial Caps or mixed case in surnames and let the
computer do the work of translation to uppercase when needed.
It is much more difficult to translate an all uppercase surname to mixed
case because of surnames which have an internal uppercase letter like
McKenzie, MacDougal VanGough etc. The computer cannot correctly change
the case from uppercase to mixed case in those cases.
Brian Kelly
On 11-May-20 11:33 p.m., Terry Montgomery wrote:
Can someone tell me why the convention is NOT all-caps? I have just
found it useful.
Terry Montgomery
On 12/05/2020 5:15 am, Tessa Keough wrote:
I say turn off the warning (as mentioned previously) AND you own your
family tree(s) and those people are in your genealogy software (you
own Legacy, it doesn't own you). If and when you want to share online
or elsewhere and feel the need, you could switch over to Initial Cap
for surname (or keep with All Cap). This is not one of the
errors/problems like not using the correct date format so that
internationally we all know what we are talking about - you do you!
/*Tessa Keough*/
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 8:38 AM Brian Kelly <exma...@gmail.com
<mailto:exma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
You can turn off that warning for all by going to Tools > Potential
Problems.
Click on the Standardization tab and remove the check in the "Surname
Entered in all uppercase" box
Brian Kelly
On 11-May-20 6:53 a.m., Gillian Hakli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tidied up my Legacy files, combining duplicates and so on.
Everything
> is now fine except that I keep getting a red problem circle
telling me
> that my surnames are all in uppercase. But they're supposed to
be. I've
> entered them that way in Customise, Data Format 3.3 and 3.4. And
clicked
> on Apply. I've exited Legacy and gone in again, but there they
still are.
>
> Please, can you help.
>
> Gillian
>
>
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