Dear Tom, What I use, don't know if correct protocol, but suits me is that I put single quotation marks about prefix's ie 'Major' John SMITH or 'Rev' Frederick BLOGGS thus if i see If I had Major SMITH I know that Major was his Christian name , I also use it for Nicknames ie an uncle is 'Peter' Richard George CAMPBELL. Don't ask me why, christened and registered as Richard George but known whole life as Peter as if you didn't know this would never find him in any official records as Peter. Anyway just one way of showing it on Charts, reports etc.. Regards Sandy Quinn Gordonvale- Far North Queensland- Australia ICQ-46808703 email- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, 28 October 1999 1:14 Subject: [LegacyUG] Given names and titles >Things are indeed quite at the moment so will take this opportunity to slip >in a quick question. My lines are mostly to the deep South, i.e. Mississippi, >etc. and I have run in to the situation where children are being named >"Major", "Judge", "Sergeant" and even "Doctor". My practice is to not >abbreviate anything but when a given name is "Major", and spelled out as >such, the result is can be easily misconstrued when the prefix title is the >same. The only solution I can think of is to abbreviate but dislike to do so. >Anyone have another alternative? > >Tom M........... > >P.S. Perhaps some of you might well remember the character "Major Major" from >the movie Catch 22 ? In that case last name was Major and he held the rank of >Major. Believe the part was played by Bob Newhart? > > >
