I'm curious of this answer too. I'm currently debating myself on this.
My current project is converting a 300+ bound volume of family history
on my mother's side to a Legacy database. Where I've found documented
AKA's I've entered those. But I also found myself entering some AKA's
for unnamed peop
Michele,
Since it means "Also Known As" I have always taken it to mean another name by
which a person was also known, as distinct from a name by which they might
possibly (or possibly not) have been known.
Ron Ferguson
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Personally, I only use what I've found on documents, or as in those whom
I've known, I will include nicknames and/or other names by which they
were known. My grandfather, for instance, was Luther Ambrose Snurr, but
everyone called him Jim. So I've added that into the AKA's even though
it wa
People seem to do the AKA's differently - kind of a personal choice thing.
I put married names into AKA's, and I also put in any spelling variations,
nicknames, and total misspellings that I have FOUND used for a person. I
don't put in spelling variations that are common for the surname, if I
ha
I use the one which is most reliable it would be most often used
in the census, birth, death, and/or marriage records.
Joseph
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Georgia wrote:
My question is how do you decide which of the various names one has is
in the/ main/ entry and which are AKAs if you did not know the
pers
Personally, I record the ones I know were in use, even though they don't
show up on any official documents.
Two examples:
I was researching an uncle who was U.S. Army tank commander, KIA in Europe
in WWII. As you know, most of those official records were destroyed in a
fire. Someone in Arthu
I would record only names that I have documented evidence of, with the
exception of adding the married name of females.
I would not add all the "possible" variations of spellings for instance,
unless verified as actually being used or your name list will be swamped.
Regards
Keith
> -Origina
As Leto II once said:
"Once you start including undocumented possibilities in your database you enter
a neverending world of parallel universes; each of which will be replete with
possible errors. Down that path lies madness!"
(GRIN!)
- Original Message
From: Michele Lewis <[EMAIL P
Yes, I probably said that I had found in documents - but I would have
recorded those nicknames in the AKA's as well (or maybe used the "nickname"
feature of the main name if they were pretty much used all the time) -
I'd probably put in a few people as sources (or the person themself as the
s
I saw emails a while back, where some users had created dummy records
with family names, then listed AKAs, history of the names and various
spellings, and used the Research log. I like the idea myself for a
master file and don't link them to the family lines.
I try not to clutter up my AKAs with
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