Re: [Gramps-users] possible change in the editors

[Billie E. W. <bil...@sw...>]

Benny Malengier wrote:
> 2009/7/8 Theo Tulley <tj....@ph...>:
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>> I don't myself use alternative names - is there an advantage in doing so?
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> If you find a person under another name (eg after immigration to USA),
> you would want to store it, no? Also maiden name/married name of a
> wife, nicknames, ...
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I usually record surnames as I find them in things like census [ WALCH, 
WELCH, WALSH in about forty years of census records for the same family 
]. In the notes section I will list where and when I found each 
different spelling. Like when I found my GGGGranfather in the 1850 
Census he was listed as WALCH so that's how I put him in the database. 
The next census didn't have him but his wife and children with the 
spelling WALSH. In 1880 My GGGrandfather was listed as WELCH when I 
found him so that's how he's listed. In 1900 my GGrandfather was WALSH 
again so that's how he is listed. [ remember we are working backwards so 
sometime the children won't show in the database with the same spelling 
as the father. ]

I don't list married women by their married name. I only use their birth 
name. Married women generally take on the surname of their husband so 
it's sort of understood that after "marriage" they will go by that name. 
When I first started I listed married women by the husbands surname in 
all caps if I didn't know their maiden name, but stopped that practice 
and deleted the all caps listing.

Nicknames,  if I know one, I put in the given name field in quotes.

Family links will generally keep straight how it all connects.

Right, wrong, or just plain indifferent, that's how I deal with it. It 
works for me. A good program should be flexible enough to allow each 
person to use it how they want.

> Then, if you search on a name in GRAMPS, it will return the person,
> even if it is only present in the alternative name list. Very valuable
> I would suppose.
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> Benny
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