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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] All at once Family NAME Change?
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 11:34:45 -0600
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Astrid Kranzbuhler wrote:

>> ... if I'm not going to print them, why make them? They don't DO anything
>except remind me that the old courthouse clerks couldn't spell! <G>.
>[snip]
>
>Hi Stuart,
>I can answer that <g>. Because V. 5 has this great new feature that we can
>use the name from any existing name tag for any event (for Principals or
>Witnesses).
>
>Example:
>Let's say John James' name on his birth certificate is spelled John James
>DOE (that is also his primary name), on his christening record it's spelled
>John James DO and on a census it's John J. DOW ...

<snip>

Good Point.

TMG4 didn't have this feature. So, although I often wanted to do just what you describe, I couldn't. Now I've gotten used to accepting the primary name in sentences although it often isn't quite appropriate, especially in the case married names. I could have hard-edited the sentences of course, but sometimes it was too much bother, and that doesn't always work so well anyway in different contexts. Now you're telling me I should bother more! Well, you're right. I should. And I probably will. But _minor_ spelling variations I will probably continue to ignore.

Stuart Armstrong
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