Does anyone know the proper way to enter Jr., Sr., III, etc. ? John /Doe/ Jr. John Jr./ Doe/ John/Doe/ I have heard conflicting ideas on this and would...
When checking my database with PAF Insight, I am finding quite a number of individuals who received their live sealings to their spouse in various temples in...
Your first example below is the correct way to enter it in PAF. In a message dated 10/7/2005 3:29:10 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, dmcpublic@... writes:...
Only one space though is what I recommend . . . First Middle1 Middle2 /Last1 Last2/ Suffix John /Doe/ Jr of course depending on the culture, other things could...
Kent, I have found the same problem with several of my ancestors. The first thing I'd do is search familysearch.org manually to see if more listings come up....
As I was helping a patron with her file of Swedish ancestors, we found that the matches returned with PAF Insight included too much variation. With so many...
David, In PAF, I enter it "John /Doe/, Jr." making sure the slashes are before and after Doe so it will be indexed properly. Legacy Family Tree has a separate...
The "Member Guide to Family History" pamphlet, you can get at any FHC, has all the Name, Date, and Place standards. Pages 7-12. Any Title goes to the right of...
Just one more thing about Name, Event Date and Place Standards there is an excellent WORD document that is a composite of a lot of people's knowledge and ...
It is actually referring to prefixes, not suffixes. A separate field exists for prefixes and is called "Title (prefix)". Doing a search for "suffix" within ...
PAF also has a separate field for a title such as Doctor or Baron or whatever. The suffix such as Jr. or MD or PhD however goes after a final forward slash. ...
According to a man who has programed for the church for the past 18 years, It is not part of his name but a Sufix it would be, Joseph/Smith/Jr Richard Lewis ...
The Standards WORD doc on about what a name, date and places is on Ohanasoftware.com is several months old. I have had a lot more interest in our connections...
I was working Initiatory ordinances in the temple yesterday, and we came upon the name /Smith/Mr. Unsure what to do, we stated "Mister Smith" as the name. Dana...
The PAF "Help" button gives us the following "Guideline For Names: ______________________________________________________ Guidelines for names. General...
Generally, if you come across a Mr/Doe/ or Mrs/Doe/ or Miss/Doe/ it is a copout by the person doing the genealogy so they can get one or two more names in...
Generally, That may be, but I have done this to connect two brothers who immigrated, (separately), from somewhere in Alsace-Lorraine. Without Mister Noel I...
Generally, one would leave off the information that is not know. For example, "Mary //" or "/Reitman/". ... __________________________________ Yahoo! Music...
Richard wrote: Generally, That may be, but I have done this to connect two brothers who immigrated, (separately), from somewhere in Alsace-Lorraine. Without...
OK Thomas and Tom. Mister /NOEL/ is now just /NOEL/. ================= Richard Van Wasshnova Seal Beach, CA ... From: Tom Sevy To: PAFInsight@yahoogroups.com ...
Another minor thing . . . I strongly recommend using mixed case instead of all upper case. PAF has a feature that allows changing of this. The standard used to...
You have it right according to the Standards and preferred way if you have just a surname. May I suggest Standard for names according to the "Member Guide"...
For those with younger eyes the upper/lower or mixed case is great, but it give me a head ache after a few minutes. I know others are the same way. Our eyes...
No matter what, it is still recommeded to use mixed case for clarity of the name. One can always change the display (on screen & reports) of surnames to be ...
... it give me a head ache after a few minutes. I know others are the same way. <<< Somewhere I've seen studies that indicate that mixed case is more...
I don't have any trouble with seeing, but I have changed PAF so that the print on the screen is larger. Not that I have any trouble seeing, but I believe there...
I was not going to comment on this any further but the remarks below were just too negative to pass up. Who recommends we use we use mixed case??!! This can...
Sorry Bob, but you got this one wrong. The correct name for Salt Lake City is Salt Lake City, including the word City. There is no city in Utah with the legal...
... Never been there, and usually just lurk here, but I do know how the French handle place names. The island is "Ste-Croix". With the silent "e" (Croix =...
... In my PAF it doesn't matter whether I put any spaces around the slashes or not. When I move to the next field, PAF places spaces around the slashes the way...
