Better be more careful! :) On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:38 PM, ronald ferguson <ronfe...@msn.com> wrote: > > Charlotte, > > Good Heavens!! For once I'm doing something by the book. > > > Ron Ferguson > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > *New Tutorial* Using the GIMP Mask > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Questions from a new user >> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:36:15 -0400 >> From: ceaste...@aol.com >> >> 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 >> >> 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 Friedri >> ch 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 >> > _________________________________________________________________ > 25GB of FREE Online Storage – Find out more > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665320/direct/01/ > > > 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 > > > >
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