G2G: Accents for French Canadian Names?

Question

Joseph Médéric Coté was born in Quebec.  I originally set up his profile from info available in US records and named him Joseph Mederic Cote.  I have now found his baptism record, which shows his birth name as Joseph Médéric Coté, with a vague circumflex over the O. (His father's name is shown with no circumflex on this record, but it does include the circumflex in others.)

I believe I should change his Last Name At Birth (LNAB) to Coté, even though US records show him as Cote.  Should I also add the circumflex?

Comments

US census records are written in English, so lose any accents that should be there.  As a note, the location field should not have the ''Centre-du-Quebec region'' which is a totally modern nomenclature, not applicable back then.  Not even really applicable now, if you insist you can put Arthabaska as a provincial electoral riding, aka county.  I come from that same general area myself.  :D

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Thanks. I have indicated that Arthabaska and Centre-du-Quebec region are modern nomenclature.

Answer 1

The common practice is to use the father’s surname from the birth/baptism record as the LNAB, accents included.

Comments

Thanks, that was my felling, but I wanted to check.