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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] All at once Family NAME Change?
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 13:42:19 -0400
References: <17a.fcf0e8b.2acf1885@cs.com>


Teresa wrote:

>Terry,
>For the birth tag, I use one PRIMARY NAME. It is usually a compendium of all
>the name types I find.
>For example:
>1850 Census: Mary L. Doe
>1860 Census: Mare Louise Doe
>1870 Census: Louise Dow
>Will of father: My daughter Mary Lou Smith formally Doe
>I will assume that her name is Mary Louise Doe and that she was known as Mary
>Lou, by her father.
>
Exactly my point -- why do you want to use the name you found for some
tags and just some name you concluded is correct for others (what do you
do with marriage, death, burial, occupation, and dozens of others that
often have multiple sources)?

I would use all those you list as sources for the Primary Name Tag,
noting in each what they show for the name. Why do you want to tell
anyone that the census taker in 1870 didn't get the name right, except
for someone who wants to actually look at that census? For that person,
show it in the source notes as it was spelled in the census; they will
want to look at the source notes anyway to see just were in the census
to look.

The good news is, as often stated by others, TMG allows us to each do it
the way we prefer. <g>

Terry


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