Makes sense!!!
Kirstin (also a viking)
Tom Montgomery wrote:
Many individuals have a nickname which has
nothing whatsoever to do with
their given name. A child may well be named
Esther Mae Smith at birth
but called "Betty" to honor a beloved aunt - not
at all uncommon. As I
pointed out, using just one Sharon rather than
Sharon "Sharon" is saying
"....I have but one given name" and that is
Elizabeth. A compiler might
logically have her recorded as Elizabeth (only)
and show "Sharon" as an
AKA or the like.
This points out a couple of other thing to be
very careful about: (1)
Nicknames do not, by any stretch, always
translate to a true given name.
I can not begin to count the number of times that
the given name Eliza
has been assumed to be Elizabeth or Nathan is
converted to
Nathaniel....both Eliza and Nathan are/were
common given names. And (2)
as shown above, a nickname may well be totally
different from a given
name. Enter the name as you know it, never make
it into something else.
A census name of Frank should be reflected as
such (in a record) even
though the father is Franklin and logic would
tell you it must be
Franklin. This is not always the case - change
when you get further
proof, never assume until proven.
TomM....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirstin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] </ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&YY=17653&order=down&sort=date&pos=0>>
To: <[email protected] </ym/[EMAIL
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Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Use of middle name
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=17653&order=down&sort=date&pos=0>
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To: <[email protected] </ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&YY=17653&order=down&sort=date&pos=0>
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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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To: <[email protected] </ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&YY=17653&order=down&sort=date&pos=0>
</ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED] </ym/[EMAIL
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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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