Ralph, On subject of birth name vs later aka used as primary. You may be interested in a book called "Getting It Right, the Definitive Guide to Recording Family History Accurately." by Mary H.Slawson, published by Deseret Book Company in 2002. I believe it is available through Amazon.com, I have no financial interest. She uses the earliest recorded version of name, birth certificate or church record, as primary and rest as AKA.
Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 4:34 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Questions from a new user Ralph Schwonke wrote >4. Is there a convention for entering a person’s primary name versus >the AKA? >For instance, my grandfather was born and baptized in Germany >as Friedrich >Carl Schwonke, but he was known in the USA for most of his >life as Charles >Schwonke. Which name should be the primary and which >the AKA? I don't think there is a hard and fast rule, but personally I use the name the person was mostly known as in the Name field and the other, less used name in the AKA field. The other option is to use a "quoted given name" where you enter the forenames as Friedrich Carl "Charles." There are Options for different ways to use quoted names in Reports and I prefer to set it so the report reads "Friedrich Carl Schwonke was born ... Charles did this, that and the other." -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
