If you put the nickname in quote in the "given" name field, then in the
printed reports you can opt to have the nickname used in the narative.
Jane "Bunny" Doe
Bunny was born .....
If you put it in the AKA field (which is perfectly acceptable) then you will
be this
Jane Doe
Jane was born....
michele
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Johnson" <davel...@gmail.com>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:26 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How to identify the commonly used first name?
Forgive me if I do not understand, but I thought that was the purpose of
the
Nickname "Event" or for the Alias. Do neither of these approaches produce
the desired results?
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf
Of Janis L Gilmore
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:35 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to identify the commonly used first name?
Cathy,
Although it may feel awkward, I think the better way is to write it as:
Robert Blair "Blair" Surname
I you enclose the first instance of Blair in quotes, it implies that
"Blair"
is truly a nickname, rather than a legitimate name. Doing it this way
allows
you to show that his full name was Robert Blair Surname, but that he went
by
his middle name.
Janis Walker Gilmore
On 2/7/09 4:39 PM, "Cathy Vallevieni" <cathyv...@cox.net> wrote:
When a person's middle name is the name they used and were known by,
do you put quotes around that middle name to make it clear that was
the name used? I know if someone had a name Elizabeth and went by
Betty that you would enter Elizabeth "Betty" in the first name
field. Not sure that someone named Robert Blair who went by Blair
should be entered at Robert "Blair" but how else to show this is the
name he used?
Thanks for any ideas.
Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County, CA
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