When you have family that alternated between the "old country" and "American" versions of their last name, how do you decide which to use as the primary last name? Yes, my FTM lets me use an AKA name, but I still have to pick one as a default, of sorts. My LEBRECHTs eventually became LEBRIGHTs. But in the instance where a family consistently used LEBRECHT on census records and consistently used LEBRIGHT on birth records (including the father's surname), which one would you use as the primary? Thanks, Lisa

I have the same situation with several family names.  Sommers/Summer/Sommer; Fallick/Falik/Fallik; Chalew/Chaluf/Chalif and more.  I pick the name most commonly used everyday and the one the family uses. Barbara KiershJacksonville, FL On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 7:58 PM, Lisa Thompson via <[email protected]> wrote: When you have family that alternated between the "old country" and "American" versions of their last name, how do you decide which to use as the primary last name? Yes, my FTM lets me use an AKA name, but I still have to pick one as a default, of sorts. My LEBRECHTs eventually became LEBRIGHTs. But in the instance where a family consistently used LEBRECHT on census records and consistently used LEBRIGHT on birth records (including the father's surname), which one would you use as the primary? Thanks, Lisa ------------------------------- 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