Last December,someone asked how to handle persons with only one name. I have
found that if I add double brackets plus the wordswife of -, is helps to
differentiate among the various Mary,Maud, etc that I have for those wives
of persons for whom I have a more complete or more identifiable
, February 05, 2007 18:53
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] SINGLE NAMES
Last December,someone asked how to handle persons with only one name. I have
found that if I add double brackets plus the wordswife of -, is helps
to differentiate among the various Mary,Maud
Art,
Just coming to this late as I have been away for a while. I believe
the accepted way in the military (for example) is to use the
designation NFN (for No First Name) and, if applicable, NMI (for No
Middle Initial). Therefore, in your particular case, you'd probably
put [[NFN]] in the first
Could you also add AKA Nelson in the Given Name and leave Surname blank?
Mary Young
On 12/31/06, Susan Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In addition to Leon's response, you could add a note in privacy
brackets in the Given Name field such as [[Only goes by one name]] -
when you print reports and
Art:
You can use either the Surname or the Given name field.
I would just use that name Nelson in the Surname field and leave the
Given name field blank. The key is how would you look this person up
if you had 10-20,000 people in your database -- I almost always use
the surname field to find
In addition to Leon's response, you could add a note in privacy
brackets in the Given Name field such as [[Only goes by one name]] -
when you print reports and omit private notes, that info won't print
out, but you will still have it as a reminder in your database.
Susan
On 12/31/06, Art
Hi Listers;
What is the accepted way of entering the name of an individual who oly has one
name? I do not mean that the given name is unknown, but that he has only one
name. I am speaking not only of historical characters such as Moses, but
contemporary people with only one name, such as a
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