>>John Sents wrote: >> > >> > How's the best way to handle entering multiple surname spelling >> > variations in my genealogy program... when the person used different >> > ones or the records show different ones? >> >>I use TMG and record all variations that I find with the source of >>the variation. The variations how in the pick list so if I come >>across the variation I can find the person. >> >>bob gillis <rpgillis@bellatlantic.net> > >Bob, thanks for your reply.... your response came closest to >answering my intended question. Guess I could've made it clearer ( >but side benefit is that the other responders gave me some good tips >on how to decide what variation to use, if I want to pick only one). > >I didn't think of using the AKA feature like you suggested. DUH! >But this leads me to another question/problem: When I 'publish' my >data on, say, RootsWeb World Connect, will the SEARCH function look >at the alternate spellings coded as AKAs? (I don't think so, but >I'm not sure). > >Back to my original question, what I was wondering is: if there is >some accepted 'scheme' for entering the applicable Surname >vatiations, such as: SENTS/Sentz/Zentz or SENTS (Sentz Zentz)? This >way, someone doing a SEARCH on any one of the variations gets my >data. > >jsents@stny.rr.com (John Sents) Bob, sorry, but I intended this reply for Mick Gurling.