When I am working on my Scandinavian lines, I go to customizing and turn off the "add father's surname" button so I don't have to remove it while adding information. I also use the other surnames (often if they left Sweden or Norway they changed their surnames) in the aka section . Also I add farmnames for my Norwegian people into the suffix (this way I have their names with their farmnames together. Play around with Legacy and customize - easy to do and it will save you time in the long run. We have discussed this and have a few hangout recordings on customizing and data entry at the Legacy Virtual Users' Group page. We also meet online once a month.
Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, No. 5089 Legacy Virtual Users' Group One Place Studies - Plate Cove, Newfoundland On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: > On 19/01/2013 00:39, Brian Lehman wrote: >> I would appreciate suggestions on how to enter a patronymic name. >> My ancestors, being Jewish, didn't have last names in Europe until abt 1800. >> Before then, people went by their name and their fathers. >> Such as Moses Seligmann, born 1757, Germany, Seligmann being Moses father. >> Moses Seligmann signed documents as such, and in 1809, he and his family >> "Adopted" the surname Turkheimer, >> after that, documents were signed Moses Turkheimer. >> How should this name be entered in Legacy? >> On the individual information screen, If I enter Moses Seligmann (his >> birth name), it looks like every other middle name. >> I enter relevant info in notes and events. >> How do I properly enter Moses Seligmann, with no last name, and not >> looking like a middle name. >> Appreciate any and all suggestions. > > How much of a problem is it to enter the patronymic as if it was a surname? > > Although Legacy "assumes" that children will have the same surname as > their father it has no objection to you changing that and entering > whatever surname you want. You can create an Event for the adoption of > the surname Turkheimer and enter that as an AKA for Moses and other > members of his family who adopted it and then enter it as the surname > for Moses' children. > -- > 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 > > 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
