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How to indicate "Usual Name"

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How to indicate "Usual Name"

Paul Gray  (View posts) Posted: 4 Jul 2009 6:36AM GMT
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Does anyone have any recommendations on the best way to record the name one normally used when it was not the first given name.

Example : John Joseph Michael Smith.

but where the individual was known as Michael, not John.

I have lots of ancestors who were given multiple names at baptism/christening, but didn't use the first one in day to day. In fact, in many of those cases, subsequent documents such as marriage and death only used the habitually used name, e.g. Michael Smith.

Thanks.......Paul
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Paul Gray 4 Jul 2009 6:36AM GMT 
Russ Worthing... 4 Jul 2009 10:55AM GMT 
Paul Gray 4 Jul 2009 2:59PM GMT 
Russ Worthing... 4 Jul 2009 10:45PM GMT 
   

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