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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Family NAME Change
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:26:02 -0600
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myrnice wrote:

>Stuart
>
>This is fine for your document but what about someone who in the future is
>trying to find the same document, maybe after it has been index on the web,
>or some other means of indexing and the person that did the indexing is
>using the spelling the way it exists on the document.

I don't follow you.
Anyone searching Gallemore, for example, will know it is spelled various ways. I don't feel any obligation to enter all variant spellings so somebody can find my report. As for "finding the same document", the spelling of a name within the document isn't part of the document description, and if I quote a document as evidence, the quoted portion will read just as I saw it. Only in the tags and narratives _about_ the evidence do I "correct" the spelling. Somewhere I don't think we're understanding each other.

Stuart Armstrong
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