If you want to be able to find any references to a person, regardless of how the name was spelled, pick one for the patronymic and use any and all others as AKAs. That way, when you find a mention of that patronymic, it will be in your database, and you will be able to see if the mention refers to your person.
I have thousands of entries in mediaeval times. The multiplicity of spellings, titles, French variants, Saxon variants, etc., that occur in various sources is amazing. Whatever variant I find, I enter as an AKA. That way, when I encounter a mention, I can easy and quickly check if that is the person in my database. There really is no reason to not include any and all AKAs for persons, now that computers have so much memory. [š] Remember, with Legacy, standard practice is not something to which you must adhere! That is one of its great strengths; you can do what you prefer! CE ________________________________ From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on behalf of Ian Thomas <il.tho...@outlook.com> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 5:17 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] AKA Iām sure there is a standard practice for this, but Iām not sure of it. I have a more recent relative who died in 1917 in Perth, Australia and her surname was spelled McEwan. Scottish Births and Baptisms lists her (and corroborating family members) with the spelling Mcune (as shown: not McCune or other variants). My preference is (within Legacy FT) to record her, and each of her siblings and her father, with the ārecentā surname (McEwan) and use the AKA Mcune (eg, Jane Mcune). Is this sensible, or should I use the SBB recordsā spellings, and only for the individual who died in Western Australia change that to McEwan? Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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