Walt, I believe that everyone has agreed that he can "use what ever works for him". The disagreement seems to come from whether his file is suitable for sharing. When people are working on a group project, there need to be some general rules that everyone follows in order for the collaboration to be successful.
Nobody will ever be consistent with such vague fields as "Notes" and whether something is a General Note or a Marriage Note or whatever, much less what should be contained within it or how it should be formatted. And that doesn't matter. However, fields that are absolutely critical for matching and combining research (in this case, the Name fields), there is not that much room for personal style. These fields are very well defined and their usage has pretty much been standardized. Everyone naturally makes the occasional error in entering data into their file, but when one intentionally misuses a field that is critical to everyone else, they should not expect their data to be of much value to others. For his own use, anything goes! We all agree on that. But for the purpose of collaboration, "plays well with others" is very crucial. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Walt Conner Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 08:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]Maiden Name? "Maiden Name" For gosh sake, I can't believe this ridiculous discussion is still going on. Let the guy use what ever works for him and others do the same . Walt Conner Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ 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 find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
