Thanks to all! All great suggestions. Bill On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Helle Thor Hirschmann <he...@hirschmann.dk>wrote:
> I always put any infant as a child with no first name but same family name > as the other children and then the gender if known. > > I do not know about many other countries, but being Dane I know that in > the olden days you had to pay for burying children but not stillborns. > Because of this many said that the child was stillborn even though it had > lived for minutes, hours or days. > > If a name of say the mother is unknown I put NN - it is international and > works fine. > > Helle > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Wendy Howard [mailto:wendy.how...@gmail.com] > Sendt: 5. marts 2013 21:31 > Til: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Emne: Re: [LegacyUG] Infant deaths > > For any person where I don't know their name, I put a description in the > Given field, surrounded by privacy brackets. It then looks like these: > > [[Unknown infant]] > [[Daughter 2]] > [[Kay's mother]] > > This way, I can withhold this non-name from reports if I choose, but > there's still something there to remind me who they are at a glance. I > include a source so I know where I found out about the person, and > attaching the source to this non-name also tells me that the source didn't > provide the name, only that the person existed. > > If I later find out what their name is/was, I use the AKA field to add > that, including a source, and then swap the real name with the placeholder > name. I keep the non-name in my research, as an AKA. > > This helps to show the progression of my research - a trick I learned from > Geoff at some stage (perhaps the cruise around New Zealand in 2010?). When > I'm printing reports for others I include the citation date in the source > so they can see the progression, too. > > Hope this helps. :-) > > Kind Regards, > Wendy > > > Bill LaBarge said the following on 6/03/2013 7:09 a.m.: > > How do you handle "unnamed infant" deaths? > > > > 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 > > > 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
