Hi Carol,
I trust you've found the settings in Options >
Customise to solve many of your problems.
I can't really comment on how to handle different
naming conventions. European users may be able to
give you advantages and disadvantages of using
the prefixes and suffixes as you are. I suspect
the suffix works but I think the prefix is to the
whole name not the surname and meant for things
like Dr, Professor, Reverend - which I don't
enter as the person when born had none of these titles.
To show the name the person actually went by, use the "quoted name"
eg my mother is entered as
Edith Beryl Joyce "Joyce"
In the report options on the Format tab, you can
choose to use Quoted Name in narrative - it is
then picked up wherever the "first name" would
otherwise be used. You can also choose to remove
the quoted name when the full name is printed.
Aliases belong in the AKA.
Surname variations are handled differently by
different people. Some put them all in the AKAs.
Some just note them in the source and/or notes.
There remain problems with the Legacy options for
names as Legacy becomes more and more
international as various language versions are
released. This is increasing the pressure to add more options.
Cathy
At 08:06 AM 25/09/2007, you wrote:
Hello again,
I have various difficult to handle personal and surnames:
Mc, Mac and La surnames where the next letter is
capitalized without a space between: Legacy will
not let me do this: McVey, LaDuke
Sephardic/Spanish surnames where the mothers
surname is listed after the fathers: Pardo
Pereira, Roquet Viamonde, Mendes Monsanto I have
been filing the mothers (second) surname under
suffix with a comma between to set it off.
Von, Van, Von de, Van de, Ahn de, De la,
prefixes that are not actually part of the
surname but are actually part of the surname
I
have, so far, put these in prefix so that the
name will go under the main name.
German first names where there is a string of
four to six first names
. How to differentiate
between the many first names and the actual name the person went by?
Then I have a great many Aliases and variations
in surname spellings
I have finally changed the
family view to show aliases so that I will be
less likely to create duplicate records under
different names for the same person! If anyone
has any methods that work for these, Id love to know.
Thanks,
Carol
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