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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Name Change on Immigration
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:42:49 -0400
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Richard Webb wrote:
> Thanks for the help Jim and Terry,
>
> One more related question. Is it better to have the name on the
> details sheet be the earliest known name and then use name variation
> tags followed by use of secondary names in the subsequent tags. Or
> is there a better strategy.

If you have fewer Tags where the old country name would be used, you
can make the new country spelling primary and have custom alternate
birth Tag and use the old country spelling in the old country events.

bob gillis

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