The church records I have been going through for Pommern all have the full name listed with only the surname underlined. I asked your question at a conference recently and the speaker (from the German desk at the LDS) said there was no consistent pattern as to what the individual was actually called in daily life. Veronica > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:11:49 -0700 > From: Morgan Cole <[email protected]> > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Which name appears in records > To: Prussia Mail List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I was reading an article on naming patterns that some Germans followed. I should have thought to ask this earlier. When you did have Germans that followed naming patterns, had that "Saint" first name and then the middle was the name they were called by, when it came to BMD records, how were their names written? Did BMD records list the person by both names or by the name they were called? Many thanks. > Morgan > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:08:57 +0800 > From: "David Armstrong" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Which name appears in records > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > The ones I've seen usually have the names in full and the one by which they were known underlined. > > David Armstrong > Maylands, > Western Australia