Ingibjórg Finnsdóttir - Alternative data from Merges

Started by Sharon Doubell on Thursday, July 19, 2012
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7/19/2012 at 9:02 AM

Surname: Athelred

7/19/2012 at 6:01 PM

Finnsdóttir is a patronym not a surname so it's possible that both could be correct.
Having said that surnames didn't become common in Scandanavia until very recently (think 2 or 3 hundred years ago), actually i don't think Iceland uses them even now?

7/20/2012 at 1:21 AM

Thanks so much for engaging on these - Alex Moes.
What I'm doing is logging the alternatives when I don't have the time to check them at the moment - so that I, or someone like you, can go back when we have the time, and the alternative data won't have been lost.

In each case - and especially the MPs - I choose the more likely - but sometimes MPs are just the best possible profile at the time; so it is possible for better data to arise.

Keeping a record of possible alternatives, so that the next serious researcher (or the manager ) on the profile doesn't work in a vacuum - seems to me to be useful.

I'm going to put this message on the other Alt Data discussions you added to as well; just as a way of explaining and encouraging others to jump in and do exactly what you just did for us on these. Thank you.

USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO KEEP A LOG ON THIS DISCUSSION OF ANY DATA LEFT OVER FROM DATA CONFLICTS, IF THEY WANT TO FLAG IT FOR FURTHER RESEARCH BEFORE ELIMINATING IT.

7/20/2012 at 1:22 AM

Yes, I was hoping the user who entered Athelred might see this, and tell us why s/he used it here.

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