On 13/01/2012 15:52, Jerry wrote: > What field do you think should be used for different spellings, if not AKA?
Well, it's not so much a case of what field *should* be as what field (if any) I or anyone else *chooses* to use! Personally, I don't use any field as such. Example. I have a family named Mathews, but quite often the name appears as Matthews. If Matthews appears in a Birth, Marriage or Death Index, for example, I will write Matthews as the Surname in the Source template. If Matthews appears on a Census my Event Description, where where I write all the info from the Census for each person, will show the Matthews spelling and in the Source I will write "household of ... Matthews" I use the AKA field only for cases where a person had an "official" name, but was also known by a different name, such a cousin of mine whose forenames were Horatio John but he was almost always called Peter, both within and without his family. I don't put nicknames or abbreviations in the AKA field, either. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
