In medical parlance as well as on alot of tombstones I have reviewed the term "Infant boy/girl" is used. I can imagine someone naming a baby Infant as a given name but I think this would be rare. Nick Cirillo
--- "John B. Lisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom, > > Please see below... > > john. > > > At 12:02 PM 4/19/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Good point as the term "Baby" can also be a given > name - I have such > >an individual in my database - I also have a > "Believe Me" given > >name. I have not seen a surname by the name of > "Uknown" but I would > >certainly not rule it out - - people do stranger > things. Anybody > >checking out those rather odd children names coming > out of > >Hollywood? I am not comdemning this, just trying to > show that one > >just never knows what name(s) any individual may > end up with. > > As I said earlier, I did not like the fictitious > surname Unknown > sorted in lists. I selected something that would > sort apart from the > known surnames. > > Also, I believe someone discovered that "Unknown" > was a valid surname > in some other language. But do not quote me on that > ;-). > > >I do not use Miss as it can be misleading, says > very specifically > >that the individual had no previous marriages. I > would suggest the > >term Ms. for females and Mr. for the male - do not > spell out as the > >title Mister can also be construed as a given > name. Of course Mrs.. > >can be used if marriage situation can be determined > and Miss. if has > >been proven there were no previous marriages. > > Hopefully, every young lady has a birth maiden name. > And that maiden > name is what you always want to be capturing. If I > know that Mrs Mary > Smith married Joe Jones, I will give he the name > Mary [--?--] in the > database and add a second marriage for her to a > Mister Jones. (and > usually go try to find out who Mister Jones was so I > can give him his > proper name and BMD info. And hopefully find his > marriage record to > Mary so I can find her correct maiden name. Not too > long ago, I was > searching through Massachusetts VRs to find a maiden > name and had to > go through 4 marriages before I found it. > > I use Mister and Miss and spell them out so they do > not look like a > name prefix. I have a few cases of Rev. Mister Jones > or Dr. Mister > Smith. I suspect that those could be legitimate > given names but I > have not run into them. I have run into people with > named Major. In > fact I found a Major Steedman in England recently > who was a Sergeant > in the Worcestershire Militia. > > I look at every name that is not complete as a > signal for a research project. > > > >Some one said earlier to use [--?--} for surnames > and this is much > >better as it cannot lead to confusion - - any > spelled out word can > >be misinterpreted as a surname (or given name), > especially if the > >first letter is a cap. My experience has been that > "accepted > >standards" for data entry are much better than > trying to develope > >your own - in the end most will end up regretting > and have a big > >chore changing over. > > Tom, there is a lot of truth in what you say. The > challenge is that > in genealogy, the standards are mostly someone > else's opinion. And > sometimes they are setup to support their own > projects. I believe > someone mentioned that the LDS has some standards > for naming to > comply with various searching technologies. However, > those standards > do not work for me when my issue is preparing > reports in Registry > format or creating web sites. > > As I said in my earlier message, for each of us, we > need to > understand how we want to use the data and adapt > standards to get the > results we want to achieve. You need a goal and then > you can figure > out how to achieve it. > > john. > Nashua, NH > > > >Tom Montgomery > > > > > Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska > or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family > History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. > Enter online at > http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp > > Legacy User Group 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/ > > For online technical support, please visit > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
