You can NOT leave both Family name and Given Name blank in Legacy. It is common when you do research in 1500's that you find notices that some ones wife died at a given point without any given name.
I would love to leave them blank how can I do that?
Sven-Ove
At 07:37 AM 2/25/2005, you wrote:
Glen has a good suggestion. One thing to think about - if you put any type of "unknown" designator in a field and you wish to send a book report to another researcher with the option "Insert Underlines for Missing..." selected, then those fields *won't* get flagged because there's something in there.
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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Hahn Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Using IGI Search with missing first or last names
I think the convention of using [---?---] or [____] was recommended on the FTM message boards. It allowed showing something in reports for the unknowns. FTM didn't have an option to include blank lines like Legacy.
-- Marty A convert from FTM
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:35:22 +1100, Rob Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd endorse the recommendation of leaving unknown portions of a name > blank. I used to mark as Unknonw, but I now leave blank nad get > better esults overall (searches and also in reports). > Rob > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:37:39 -0800, Glen Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Susan, > > > > > Or is this limitation due to my use of the characters [---?---] to > > > represent unknown names? Should I replace these characters with some > > > sort of wildcard prior to performing a search of the IGI database > > > using Legacy? > > > > You should leave the field blank if you don't know. If the field is blank, > > that denotes that you don't know what the information is. I don't think a ? > > is necessary because of this fact and it might yeild better results. > > > > Glen
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