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From: "Myra V Gormley" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Indexing Females
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:05:13 -0700
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Ah, for simplicity's sake -- women should be listed (and thus indexed) by
their maiden names -- not their husband(s) names. Blessed be the Dutch (and
a few other ethnic groups) for being sensible.

I know this does not address the indexing problem presented here, but why
is it necessary to list women by their husbands' names? Knowing the names
of their husband(s) are important when you are doing the research to find
them, of course, but otherwise, what purpose does this serve?

Myra (Vanderpool) Gormley, CG


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia M. Case" <>
To: <>
Sent: September 17, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [APG] Indexing Females


> "If I gave her name as Lovina (Rader) Reese West, it could raise
> questions in some people's minds as to whether she married Mr.
> Reese and then Mr. West, or whether she married a high-falutin'
> Englishman named Mr. Reese West."
>
> I think that's a bit of a stretch; at least it wouldn't have
> occurred to
> me. (I suppose I'd expect a double surname to be hyphenated.)
>
> Re the use of parentheses, I have a strong preference for their
> use solely to indicate which is the maiden name.
>
> Cheers, Julie
>
> Julia M. Case
> Editor, Missing Links and Somebody's Links
> http://www.petuniapress.com/
> http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [APG] Indexing Females
>
>
> At 11:11 PM 09/15/2002 -0700, Joan Lowrey wrote:
> >Here's how I indexed Verla, born Gardner, who married four
> times, and one
> >of her sons who was born to Mr. Allers, but when she married Mr.
> Clary, was
> >known as Clary:
> >
> >Allers
> >Daniel James, 58, 61, 63, 64, 286, 295, 395. See also Clary,
> Daniel Allers
> >Verla (Gardner,) 61, 64, 70, 286, 395. See also under Gardner;
> Wright; Clary;
> > Gilbert
> >
>
>
> My choice would be to have one main form of the person's name
> where all page
> numbers where that person appears are gathered, with see
> references from the
> other forms of the name. This saves the reader from having to
> flip around in
> the index looking for different forms of the name (and in the
> example you
> give above, looking at pages 61, 64, 286, and 395 twice each).
> If i'm
> looking for information about someone in a book, I want all the
> information
> about him or her, not just information from a particular time
> period.
>
> In response to another question, I favor putting parens around
> each surname
> except the last one: e.g., my great grandmother as Lovina (Rader)
> (Reese)
> West. If I gave her name as Lovina (Rader) Reese West, it could
> raise
> questions in some people's minds as to whether she married Mr.
> Reese and
> then Mr. West, or whether she married a high-falutin' Englishman
> named Mr.
> Reese West.
>
> Christine
>
> Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
> Hyde Park, NY
> author of _Long-Distance Genealogy_
> http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70495
>
>
>
>
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