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Subject: Re: [TMG] Family NAME Change
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:59:40 EDT
In a message dated 10/1/2002 12:33:46 PM Central Standard Time,
writes:
> Especially with the censuses, it is highly likely that the census taker just
> wrote it down as they considered the name to be spelled. Therefore, I see
> no point in creating a special tag to record the name as it appeared on
> every census to perpetuate what *I believe to be* plain recording errors,
> not actual alternate spellings.
>
> CheriC
>
>
May I give the OTHER VIEW on this? Granted, you knew your grandfather's name
and how he preferred to spell it. But what if we are dealing with an
ancestor whose name we don't know. Wouldn't recording every variation of it
be just as legitimate a research task as recording every birth date we find.
Then determining which name is the most correct. Especially if the names are
as varied as Mary Etta, Marcetta, Maretta. Which is the correct name?
Teresa Ghee Elliott
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