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. My normal approach is to use the spelling that most members of the family used–when that is known. Virtually all members of my Rampley family use that spelling today, so that’s the one that I use. It certainly gets spelled a variety of ways in documents, but I use “Rampley” when writing about them and entering names into databases. The last name Trautvetter gets written a variety of ways, but generally speaking that is the spelling most members of my […]
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