I totally agree with other posters … I’d use “of Cleves” or “von Cleve” as the
last name since there is no standard family “last name” in many German or
English aristocracy.
Incidentally, you may want to verify the “der Freiliche” part … I think that’s
an error. In many sources, including Wiki
I was thinking of opening this line of discussion at some time as I have
also pondered how to best handled the "vons, van ders, etc" in Legacy.
Putting the von in the surname comes out OK in reports (as far as I can
tell) but it appears as the surname when you do an Internet search of
FamilySearch,
used to
specifically identify them.
You could, I suppose, put them as suffixes in the Alt Name, if you so wish.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
From: Bernd Hornung
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:42 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Historic Surnames
I was
Exactly … that’s the point IO was making
From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:35 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Historic Surnames
I think that we should be careful of confusing nick names with real names “The
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