Hi and i put after the comment(2) wife named as Smith or Jones.....or mother named as brown or White... This seems to work ok. Is that not simpler???cheers Mike Parker

Nice to hear you are indicating in your transcriptions the entries have alternative names where appropriate. However it is far better if everyone for consistency adopted a standard approach to dealing with alternative names rather than inventing their own format Hence why we introduced the rule to transcribe alternative names in the standard format: many years ago. #COMMENT(2) entry reads <alternative> for <field> So an entry in scan http://images.freebmd.org.uk/GUS/1961/Births/March/ANC-05/G-O/1961B1-G-0015.jpg such as GENTLES,Sheena K. E.,GENTLES or LOGAN,Lambeth,5c,2160 should be transcribed as: GENTLES,Sheena K. E.,GENTLES,Lambeth,5c,2160 #COMMENT(2) entry reads GENTLES or LOGAN for mother's name GENTLES,Sheena K. E.,LOGAN,Lambeth,5c,2160 This spells out exactly the fact the index shows GENTLES or LOGAN for the mother's name. Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Parker To: FreeBMD-Admins@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:30 PM Subject: alternate names Hi and i put after the comment(2) wife named as Smith or Jones.....or mother named as brown or White... This seems to work ok. Is that not simpler???cheers Mike Parker