Danish Naming

Question

Hello all,

I've discovered some Danish relatives that I'd like to add, and while I understand the different naming concepts, I'm still slightly unsure.

Kjerstine Andersen Bach is the daughter of Jacob Andersen Bach, however from there his father is Anders Thomasen Bach (and I can assume that his father was Thomas). Because two of them use Andersen before it changes, would the generally patronymic name (Andersen, Thomasen) go in the LNAB? I just want to check before I do it and then get it wrong.

Answer 1

Here is a link to the Danish Naming Conventions and guidelines

Comments

Pip, Thanks for the best answer star.

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Lynda,

I have already looked here and it still hasn't given me a definitive answer. It looks to me as if Andersen is a frozen patronym, with Bach as the slægtsnavn, and then from this generation upwards (Jacob & siblings and upwards), Andersen/Andersdatter is a true patronym, but I am still confused as to what I put where. Does the patronym go in LNAB, or the slægtsnavn? From what I read of the guidelines, it talked about one or the other, but not both.

Number 2: "Last Name at Birth and Current Last Name fields will be reserved for slægtsnavn and patronymic names" suggests that Bach would be the LNAB and Andersen/Andersdatter as the CLN, but I want to be sure before I create the profile.

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If nobody from the Denmark project comes along to advise you try looking at some of the profiles that are under the project to see how they have done it.