Re: Personal Information

hasanders said:
"Some of my relatives already have several alternative name tags, so I hesitate to use that in my case. I really want the Italian given name to stand out somehow. When you use the name tag for nicknames, do you just put "Jack" or do you include surname?"

I've moved away from include every spelling of my relatives names that I find in source material. In Norway due to local variations, language differences, and phonetic spellings we have lots of name spellings in source material. I normally record the most frequently used, or the one that I see as the most reliable in the primary name tag, then record any commonly used nick names either as a second NAME tag or for me a less used quoted names in the primary name. Finally all other name spelling variations that are close, i.e. Katerine, Caterine, Katherine ... I add as notes to the primary name. Only in select instance will I add each as a separate NAME tag.

For example: Katerine Hveding was know as "Kiki"

This could be entered as either:
Katerine "Kiki" Hveding
-or-
Katerine Hveding
Kiki Hveding

The second indexes Kiki in many software programs while the first does not.