Nfs Loves it. It treats the name inside the //'s as the last name, and the rest as a middle name. Have done many of these (Mostly in the Montreal Temple). While dit can be translated as "or", a fuller explanation can be found at one of my web sites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~unclefred/DitNames.html Regards, Fred -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of W David Samuelsen Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 6:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] How do I talk w/ people in Standardized Place Names? nFS won't recognize it for temple ordinances. It has to be "Belleville or Provencher". I haven't got any new entries from my family to try using dit instead of or in nFS yet because so much was already done. David S. On 3/12/2012 5:52 PM, Fred wrote: > I code "dit" thusly: Jean Baptiste dit Belleville/Provencher/

you can enter the name in any way but when it comes to temple ordinances, it won't accept them unless it is "Belleville or Provencher", not "Belleville dit Provencher" or "Belleville (Provencher)", or "Belleville aka Provencher" even "Belleville dit Provencher" is most proper name. David S. On 3/16/2012 6:41 AM, Fred wrote: > Nfs Loves it. It treats the name inside the //'s as the last name, and the > rest as a middle name. Have done many of these (Mostly in the Montreal > Temple). While dit can be translated as "or", a fuller explanation can be > found at one of my web sites: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~unclefred/DitNames.html > > Regards, Fred > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of W David > Samuelsen > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 6:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] How do I talk w/ people in Standardized Place Names? > > nFS won't recognize it for temple ordinances. It has to be "Belleville or > Provencher". I haven't got any new entries from my family to try using dit > instead of or in nFS yet because so much was already done. > > David S. > > On 3/12/2012 5:52 PM, Fred wrote: >> I code "dit" thusly: Jean Baptiste dit Belleville/Provencher/ > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >