From: Martin E. <mar...@gm...> - 2008-09-03 22:01:59
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Maybe we've had too much discussions of names and addresses, but there is one point where I'd like guidance. In "olden" days, it was common that a name would be spelled in various ways on different occasions. Parents and children might use different spellings, etc. What is the best way to recognize spelling variants? There is the "Names" tab, but this is overkill. Generally, I only want to allow for a surname variant. "Also known as" would not be incorrect, but it doesn't seem to capture the situation, and in any case a new "name" is a heavyweight entity (so many options!). For example I have a birth record for "Bowin" and a marriage record for the same person as "Bowen". -- Martin Ewing, AA6E Branford, CT |