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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Name variations
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:44:00 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20060118034527.24129.qmail@web81202.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Kaye,

I agree with what Terry and David wrote. I would like to add that I often
set the primary name to the name a person used (e.g., "Brad") and then add
another name tag, with a sort date set to the day after their birth that
gives the full formal name ("James Bradley"). I use a custom name tag for
it, "Name-Full".

[PP] full name was [N] <[M]>

The "full name" terminology may not be the best for your cases, but you may
want to consider setting the general issue of which name to set primary.

John

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