Bryna -- I think it's outdated unless you're preparing a manuscript that will not foreseeably become digitally searchable, i.e. hardly ever. I also think that Elizabeth Shown Mills has commented comprehensively on this somewhere. Thinking internationally, the more important internal capitalization might be within a surname (or if important accent marks could not be applied to capital letters), the less desirable it would be. In general, my predisposition would be not to do it because it makes the page look all jumpy. But my co-compilers and I agreed to capitalize surnames in our recently published abstracts of La Porte County probates -- but NOT in the index! Harold Harold Henderson, CG midwestroots.net *Finding Ancestors in Fort Wayne: The Genealogist's Unofficial One-Stop Guide to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center * http://www.midwestroots.net/ <http://www.midwestroots.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ACPLGC-April-2013.pdf> Certified Genealogist (SM) No. 1029 Certified Genealogist and CG are proprietary service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® used by the Board to identify its program of genealogical competency evaluation and used under license by the Board’s associates. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Bryna O'Sullivan via < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 was outdated. Is the course work simply outdated or is it a regionalism?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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 >