All of us sometimes need to be reminded of things.
For me–it’s spelling a last name consistently when writing about one specific person or couple. In writing a narrative about two members of my Behrens family, I alternated between Behrends and Behrens. I need to choose one spelling.
Documents and records should be transcribed as they are written. But when writing expository paragraphs about an individual, I should use a consistent spelling.
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I was wondering about that this morning after reading something last night. This actually clears things up 4 me.
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I use the spelling that I found in the referred records and put my preferred spelling in parenthesis. Maybe it should be the other way round???