Kristian,
You are absolutely correct about this. Without farm names I couldn't have found any of my ancestors in Norway. I have ended up putting both names in the "Given name" and the farm name in the Surname. That is: Given: Lars Andreas Pedersen and Surname as Eritsland (farm name). The different spellings of the farm name Eritsland (over 41) go in the AKA name. I actually ended up putting all the Eritsland spellings under Notes as there are so many different spellings.. Non of this is correct of course. The "Surname" would be Pedersen, IF they used "surnames", which as you know they mostly didn't. In AKA I also put the different names for Lars as his name was changed or spelt differently depending on the source. So I agree this is NOT an AKA issue....It is a more complicated issue than using the AKA.
Carol from Canada
P.S. Prefixes and Suffixes are not correct either and I don't use them due to lack of clarity, Eritsland is not a suffix.
This isn't an AKA isue, it's the fact that a lot of Europeans identify their ancestors by two names and a location/farmname.
From time to time Americans search their ancestors in Scandinavia. Those who only have John Olsson doesn't get far if that is the only information they have. They nead an area, and a farm name gives greater chanses to get a hit. That's the way I do my research, put small bits together, names and property, small bits of informations.
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