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From: "Julia M. Case" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Indexing Females
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:20:18 -0400
References: <2.2.32.20020917015540.01625a4c@pop3.norton.antivirus>


"If I gave her name as Lovina (Rader) Reese West, it could raise
questions in some people's minds as to whether she married Mr.
Reese and then Mr. West, or whether she married a high-falutin'
Englishman named Mr. Reese West."

I think that's a bit of a stretch; at least it wouldn't have
occurred to
me. (I suppose I'd expect a double surname to be hyphenated.)

Re the use of parentheses, I have a strong preference for their
use solely to indicate which is the maiden name.

Cheers, Julie

Julia M. Case
Editor, Missing Links and Somebody's Links
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] Indexing Females


At 11:11 PM 09/15/2002 -0700, Joan Lowrey wrote:
>Here's how I indexed Verla, born Gardner, who married four
times, and one
>of her sons who was born to Mr. Allers, but when she married Mr.
Clary, was
>known as Clary:
>
>Allers
>Daniel James, 58, 61, 63, 64, 286, 295, 395. See also Clary,
Daniel Allers
>Verla (Gardner,) 61, 64, 70, 286, 395. See also under Gardner;
Wright; Clary;
> Gilbert
>


My choice would be to have one main form of the person's name
where all page
numbers where that person appears are gathered, with see
references from the
other forms of the name. This saves the reader from having to
flip around in
the index looking for different forms of the name (and in the
example you
give above, looking at pages 61, 64, 286, and 395 twice each).
If i'm
looking for information about someone in a book, I want all the
information
about him or her, not just information from a particular time
period.

In response to another question, I favor putting parens around
each surname
except the last one: e.g., my great grandmother as Lovina (Rader)
(Reese)
West. If I gave her name as Lovina (Rader) Reese West, it could
raise
questions in some people's minds as to whether she married Mr.
Reese and
then Mr. West, or whether she married a high-falutin' Englishman
named Mr.
Reese West.

Christine

Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Hyde Park, NY
author of _Long-Distance Genealogy_
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70495




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