Having just broken down my Clive family tree brick wall from 1805 back to 1717 thanks to this web sites members, I now seem to have another problem.
How do old hands at this family tree business handle many and various Surname spellings when entering new people into existing trees, for example on the ancestry site where my tree is.
Back to 1804 my family surname is Clive with the odd census variation being an added 's' or 'r'.
Beyond that it changes in parish records almost every time there is an entry, from Clive, to Cleeve, Cleeves, Cleves, Cleaves etc etc.
Some of the same people are all three of them at different times of their lives which has made the sorting out difficult, but before I enter them all up I wonder if there is a usual or accepted way of doing it so it makes sense and so I don't feel the need to change it all once I put them all in?
Thanks
Les
How do old hands at this family tree business handle many and various Surname spellings when entering new people into existing trees, for example on the ancestry site where my tree is.
Back to 1804 my family surname is Clive with the odd census variation being an added 's' or 'r'.
Beyond that it changes in parish records almost every time there is an entry, from Clive, to Cleeve, Cleeves, Cleves, Cleaves etc etc.
Some of the same people are all three of them at different times of their lives which has made the sorting out difficult, but before I enter them all up I wonder if there is a usual or accepted way of doing it so it makes sense and so I don't feel the need to change it all once I put them all in?
Thanks
Les
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