FTM has built into
it knowledge of certain compound
name forms where the "middle" name
is really supposed to be part of the surname.
Martin Van Buren,
is a good example. FTM takes the surname to be "Van Buren", and that is
the way you will see it indexed. Other forms are shown below. If this is
not what you intended, you can explicitly show FTM the surname by surrounding
it with back slashes:
Frederick Van \Johnson\ (otherwise,
FTM will assume the surname to be "Van Johnson". The backslashes will not
appear in any reports; you will only see them on the data entry Family
Page.
Compound surname forms
ARE
de
del
dela
de la
delos
de los |
di
du
mac
st.
saint |
van
van de
van der
von |
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ARE NOT
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Because of the inconsistencies — St. but not Ste., Mac but not Fitz,
Delos but not Dos — it is probably a Good Idea to use the backslashes with
all
compound names rather than try to memorize the above table. |
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