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From: Kay Robinson <>
Subject: Re: Entering Titles into Genealogy Programs
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 01:36:23 +0000


On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:48:00 GMT, John Steele Gordon
<> wrote:

>Kay Robinson wrote:
>
>> I prefer to use the first field as is ie. as a 'name' field and a
>> title is not a name. So the example above would be James II Stuart
>> with his title or titles in another obvious place. Of course this is
>> purely my preference. I would like to see genealogy programs have the
>> ability to search on more than one field though.
>
>Family Origin 8.0 handles titles better than any genealogy program I
>know of. Certainly much better than Family Tree Maker, which is geared
>much more to making pretty charts for Grandma's birthday than serious
>genealogy.
>
>When you enter a person into a database, it gives you four fields to
>work with: 1) first name, 2) last name, 3) title (prefix), and 4) title
>(suffix).
>
>Thus if you fill in the fields 1) Henry 2) Percy 3) Sir 4) K.G., 2nd
>Earl of Northumberland, what comes out when you print is "Sir Henry
>Percy, K.G., 2nd Earl of Northumberland." Similarly 1) Edward III 2)
>blank 3) blank 4) King of England comes out "Edward III, King of
>England." Similarly again, 1) Edwin 2) Sandys 3) The Most Reverend 4)
>Archbishop of York comes out "The Most Reverend Edwin Sandys, Archbishop
>of York."
>
>It also allows you to see five generations at once on the screen, which
>makes navigating much easier. I highly recommend it.

Sounds good John, especially if one is able to search on more than
just a name field. I use Brother's Keeper and I do like it despite a
few little quirks. It does, however, only allow 40 characters in the
name field and doesn't have any secondary name fields.

How much is Family Origin and is it for the PC?

Kay

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