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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Welsh Database
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 10:39:21 -0400


Gee Gee Hughes wrote:
>1. My early Welsh ancestors used patronymics rather than surnames and
>precludes entering a married name for spouses. I have entered them as:
>
>For Males:
>First: Einion
>Surname: ap Iowerth
>
>For females:
>First: Efa
>Surname: ferch Gruffudd
>
>One of the problems that I am concerned with, is the mixing of this type of
>entry in the database with those ancestors who are recorded with a surname
>and the use of a married name. Will this present a problem with indexing?
>If so, would it be best to split the database?

You may want to add a Name tag with a different Given Name or Surname as a
variation of the Primary and/or married name. You may designate this
additional name tag(s) as a nickname, a name variation, a baptismal name, a
name change (as in adoption or legal change), or a married name (or other
custom name tag as you create).

>2. Now that I am accumulating this information, the need to figure out how
>to present the database in print and harness the information arises. If it
>were a normal database, I probably would be able to break it up into
>chapters by surname. However, the nature of the database (along with all
>of the inter-marriages) precludes this. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

All I can suggest is that you may want to use generations as different
chapters. Or you could restrict the number of persons for a chapter based
on the filter that you use. You may need to set up temporary small subsets
of your main dataset for this purpose. See my website's (URL below) page
on TMG Tips and Hints for the discussion on creating this smaller dataset.

>3. Illigitimate children were often the norm for the early Welsh. When
>entering a mother for these children, I need to show (and print) that no
>marriage occured and that the child was illigitimate. Should this
>information be included as a note, as I can only find a marriage tag.?

Some users add a custom tag such as LIAISON and use this in place of the
Marriage tag. If you place this in the Marriage Group, the tag will be
treated similar to the Marriage tag although the Tag Sentence that you use
can indicate that there was no actual marriage.

Hope this helps -


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Lee Hoffman/KY
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