The AKAs are used in doing searches, especially the automatic IGI searches.
michele
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randolph Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Automatically create AKA for married women
I'm still having a hard time seeing why the AKAs are needed. In the
Marriage List there are options for viewing/finding spouses.
Randy
On Feb 12, 2008 9:42 AM, Jessica Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is a FANTASTIC method! Thank you! I learned something new from the
LUG!
Jess M
> >
> Whilst it won't create married name AKAs automatically I have thought of
> a way to make the task a little easier. Go to Index View. Make sure
> you have selected to Show AKAs. Sort by RIN (this is important, because
> it lists all instances of a particular women together because they have
> the same RIN). Scroll down through all names – remembering that females
> are shown in one colour, males in another so it makes it easy to see the
> females who might need a married AKA. For the women where I have
> entered a married name AKA I see the following:
>
> 10 SMITH, Mary Jane
>
> 10 ~ BROWN, Mary Jane (Mrs)
>
> 10 ~ JONES, Mary Jane (Mrs)
>
> When I come across a single entry for a woman it is a simple matter to
> check across the columns to see if she has a spouse. If so, but no AKA
> it is a simple matter to open up the individual screen for that women,
> add the married AKA, return to the Index View by closing the Individual
> Information screen and continue the search. Might take a while, but
> infinitely quicker than any other way I can think of.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jan
>
>
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