And I disagree........I believe you should always use the FIRST logical
document - birth or baptism - as that is the name they were given. All
others are changes to the name they were given.
PS - I am a professional genealogist.
Jenny M Benson wrote:
Laura Johnson wrote
I have a much more standardized approach to the names. I would
approach it very simplistically
I record EXACTLY what is on the documents. If the birth document
stated the surname is PETER, then I would record it as that. If a
later document for the same person shows PETERS, then I would create
the AKA for that entry.
I also record exactly what is written on every Source document, but
when you create an Individual in Legacy you have to choose one primary
Surname and all other Surnames are recorded as AKAs. If I had only
one Source for the Surname at Birth and it happened to differ from any
other spelling used later in life, I would not record the "main
Surname" as that on the Birth Source document, but would use the one
most commonly found.
My Great Grandfather's Forename was Horace, his name appears as such
on nearly all documentation - except his Birth Certificate on which he
is recorded as Orace. My Source Citation shows that he was Orace on
his BC, but in my family file his Forename is Horace.
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