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From: "Bruce McKay" <>
Subject: Re: abbreviating names
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:00:28 -0700


In my family we have the 'de Broglie' family. I have followed the
convention started by Ira away back in ver 1.0 of using the slashes, i.e /de
Broglie/ as this name would always be found under 'd' in phone book, or
under 'd' in an internet search. Where I get into problems is with
hyphenated names e.g. Vandervoort-McKay. Too long for GEDCOM.
Bruce McKay
----- Original Message -----
From: Ira J. Lund <>
To: <>
Sent: 03 July 1999 04:42
Subject: Re: abbreviating names

> In CFT Ver 3 there will be more space for names - 150 characters.
>
> My suggestion, now that I have seen your names and read your ideas would
be
> as follows (shows slashes around the surnames).
>
> Caetano Francisco Xavier Nepomoceno Carneiro de Souza e Faro Corte-Real
/de
> SAMPAYO/
>
> abbreviations working from shortest to longer:
>
> Caetano /de SAMPAYO/
> Caetano F /de SAMPAYO/
> Caetano Francisco /de SAMPAYO/
> Caetano Francisco X /de SAMPAYO/
> Caetano Francisco Xavier /de SAMPAYO/
>
> I think you can see the pattern. However, this could be altered if the
> names preceding the surname are more important than the names after the
> first given. Should it be?
>
> Caetano /de SAMPAYO/
> Caetano Francisco /de SAMPAYO/
> Caetano Francisco Corte-Real /de SAMPAYO/
> Caetano Francisco Faro Corte-Real /de SAMPAYO/
> Caetano Francisco e Faro Corte-Real /de SAMPAYO/
>
> What do you think?
>
> However, I do believe that Spanish names usually show the mothers surname
> after the fathers surname. Also explain to me where these names came from.
> I would guess that all the de, da, e names are ancestral of some sort. I
> would be interested in understanding how the Portuguese construct their
> names and where they all came from.
>
> I am not an expert on Spanish names, but it almost looks like there is
> differences between Spanish and Portuguese. Can you explain the
differences
> to me?
>
> Thanks, Ira
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Ira J. Lund
> Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
> Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals
> E-mail:
> http://www.cf-software.com
>

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