Isn't that redundant? Why not use Elizabeth "Sharon" and we can assume (maybe incorrectly) that Sharon is the middle name. I don't really know which is proper.

Tom Montgomery wrote:

Sharon, forgive me if I have misunderstood your message. Your given name should be shown as Elizabeth Sharon "Sharon" and not as Elizabeth "Sharon". Doing it this way is saying that you have no middle name......

TomM

----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Perdue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] </ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&YY=47517&order=down&sort=date&pos=3>>
To: <[email protected] </ym/[EMAIL 
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Use of middle name


I go by my middle name - always have - it's a
pain sometimes! Lots of
them in my family. Asked my mother why she
named me Elizabeth Sharon
if she planned to call me Sharon - she said it
sounded better.
ANYWAY - I put the middle name in quotes. Then
you can choose to use
quoted names in various reports.

Sharon Perdue

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny M Benson"
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 9:31 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Use of middle name


How do other Legacy users cope with people who
don't use their first
name for "everyday" but prefer(red) to use one
of their other given
names.

I know that Legacy provides the AKA option,
where alternate names are
used and I think that is very useful for
people who changed their
name, or where there are variations of
spelling, but if a person's
given name is "Arthur Bertram Charles Dawson"
it doesn't seem correct
to use "Also known as" to indicate that he was
generally referred to
as Bertram or Charles rather than Arthur.

When entering census information I like to use
a Census Event and in
the notes write something like "He was living
at 2 High Street with
his wife Fanny and their son Arthur."
Referring to him as Arthur
means he is easily traced in Legacy or
identified in a Report, but
doesn't seem right if he was actually
enumerated as Bertram Dawson.
On the other hand, if I write "and their son
Bertram" it is not so
easy to find him as a person would look for
Bertram Dawson, not
Arthur Dawson.

That sounds a bit garbled, I hope it makes
sense.
--
Jenny M Benson

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