Robert, To 'me' it would be rare to have several couples of the same last name to have unknown children. But, I know many people does have this problem though.
To me, duplicate names would be no problem because they show up 'under' their individual parents, but............ To keep from having duplicate names, instead of: Child 1 Smith Child 2 Smith I would just name the children for the other couple: #1 Child Smith #2 Child Smith For a third couple I would name the children: Child-1 Smith Child-2 Smith You could even name them: First Child Smith Second Child Smith Of course Legacy gives them the last name of Smith, or whatever the last name of the father happens to be. There are a great number of ways to name the children. My message to Glenn was just an example of how I handled unnamed children. In other words, I was saying that I 'identified' them with a 'name' of some sort. Louise -- < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Carneal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 11:02 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] About Unknown name for children > <Copy> > I have a few (very few) couples in my data that have unknown children. I > just go ahead and add those children to the couple. Say, the father's last > name is Smith, I just add the children as: > Child 1 Smith > Child 2 Smith > Child 3 Smith > <End> > > I have three couples with the same husband's name. Suppose the husband's > name is John Smith, and each couple has several unknown children, but I do > not know the names yet. To keep from having duplicate names, I use a coding > scheme. Somewhere, in Notes probably, I provide as much information as I > can on the unknown. The names are big, but it is informative for me. > > For John Smith and Rachal Anderson: > Childjsraone Smith The "jsra" are the parents initials. > Childjsratwo Smith > > For John Smith and Denise Ann Brown: > Childjsdabone Smith The "jsdab" are the parents initials. > Childjsdabtwo Smith > > I have not gone above nine yet, but I were forced to do so, I would > abbreviate to keep the numbers to a maximum of 6 letters long. > > When I export Gedcoms, the difference in the first names is enough that I > can perform functions such as count children for each couple, and I avoid > having two or more "Unknown" assigned to same the couple. Of course, you > can use your scheme, but I would recommend keeping is simple enough to make > changes with! Its important to keep the scheme to one that you can > understand! It does no good for you to come up with a scheme, use it, walk > away, and then forget how you did it. > > This obviously is +not+ the only way. I am +not+ even going to say it is > the best way; there is always a better way. It is just a way that has > worked for me well very well. > > Robert > > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
