Bryna, I have followed the examples of Curran, Crane, and Wray in *Numbering Your Genealogy. *If you will notice, they use bold for the individual's name and their spouses name. They use small caps for the child's name. Most of the older practices were based on the limitations of the typewriter. We could not access "bold," so we used all caps. To underline, we had to backspace and repeatedly underscore. We now use italics. We did not have access to different sizes of fonts until the IBM Selectric, in which case, we would change the type ball, to get a small cap. Time-consuming. Rondina _______________________ Rondina P. Muncy Ancestral Analysis 4008 Linden Avenue Fort Worth, Texas 76107 682.224.6584 [email protected] www.ancestralanalysis.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bryna O'Sullivan via > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 9:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SPAM-Med] [TGF] capitalization of surnames > > Hi all, > I'm posing this question mostly out of curiosity. I'm reviewing course work > for an advanced genealogy program, and the instructor insists that surnames > be capitalized - a practice I have not seen done recently and had been told > was outdated. Is the course work simply outdated or is it a regionalism? > The course is based outside of the United States. > -Bryna O'Sullivan > >