[LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Jerry
What field do you think should be used for different spellings, if not AKA? Thanks. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:52:27 -0500, Jerry jerrysemailgro...@gmail.com wrote: What field do you think should be used for different spellings, if not AKA? I created a custom event called ... Alt. Spelling. ;-) -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools/Custom Programming)

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Mike Fry
On 2012/01/13 18:01, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: What field do you think should be used for different spellings, if not AKA? I created a custom event called ... Alt. Spelling.;-) Nice idea! Except... to swapping an AKA with the Name fields. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group

RE: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Jan Roberts
- CULLEENY was spelled KULLING in a record I found just today) for a single person. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:kowal...@iglou.com] Sent: Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:01 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs On Fri, 13 Jan

RE: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Jan Roberts
Sorry, I include married names, not alternate names in the index view. Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Jan Roberts [mailto:poo...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Saturday, 14 January 2012 03:51 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] AKAs Or you could just add a note

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 13/01/2012 15:52, Jerry wrote: What field do you think should be used for different spellings, if not AKA? Well, it's not so much a case of what field *should* be as what field (if any) I or anyone else *chooses* to use! Personally, I don't use any field as such. Example. I have a family

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Jerry
Thanks - seems there are still so many grey areas - one could wish for better standardization, but that would not make a lot of us happy if we disagreed, so I guess we just continue doing what makes sense to us. --Jerry On 01/13/2012 12:31 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: On 13/01/2012 15:52,

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Ron Ferguson
to the lowering of standards to the lowest common denominator. Now for a decent *British* pint! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Jerry Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:49 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs Thanks - seems

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread John Roose
://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: Jerry Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:49 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs Thanks - seems there are still so many grey areas - one could wish for better standardization, but that would not make a lot of us happy if we

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Jerry
/ -Original Message- From: Jerry Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:49 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs Thanks - seems there are still so many grey areas - one could wish for better standardization, but that would not make a lot of us happy if we

RE: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread CE Wood
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs Thanks Ron. I agree with you (probably more than I disagree), but without some standardization, where would we be? We could not even get off first base, so there is a balance there. I just wish that the definitions for AKA, nicknames, spelling

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Ron Ferguson
@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs Thanks Ron. I agree with you (probably more than I disagree), but without some standardization, where would we be? We could not even get off first base, so there is a balance there. I just wish that the definitions for AKA, nicknames, spelling variations

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread CE WOOD
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs Off-topic, I know, but may I ask your connection with the Norfolk-Howard family, or is it just a research project? Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -Original Message- From: CE Wood Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 8:16 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs

2012-01-13 Thread Ron Ferguson
Many thanks. Just wondered, I’m not related to the families myself, but met the late Duke on a few occasions. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: CE WOOD Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:19 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] AKAs Hi Ron, Many tangential