On 16 Apr 2006 at 7:22, Roxanne wrote: > Sorry for chiming in late on this topic. I have found > that, within a certain time period (both in my family > and my fiance's family) it seemed to be common to use > the middle name rather than the first name. I can't > tell you how many times I have searched for someone in > the census, sometimes entire families, and found them > all enumerated under their middle names. It seemed to > be most common in the 1880 US Census. (Again, this is > for my and my fiance's families.)
In Germany in the 19th century it seemed to be common to use the last first name, if you see what I mean. We had a Michael John Christian Falkenberg who was known as Christian Falkenberg, for example. We have the name as Christian Falkenberg, and then put the full names in an aka. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
