The following was very interesting to me. I just figured if there was no
middle name or initial it was just lacking in info given to the interviewer...Now
it seems there are those that find this very disturbing. I have not run into
any initials as they describe in the following tidbits. Thought there may
be some interest in this on the list.........
Beej--Fireflower
RootsWeb Review, 10 Sep. 2003, Vol. 6, No. 37
Names, Names, Names
By Linda Ebersole BigGenealogyGirl(a)aol.com
I found the "In Search of the Wild LNUs" to be a very good article. The only
thing that was missing is noting the lack of a middle name. When you know
someone only has a first and last name.
Mary (n) (O'BRIEN) O'BRIEN
-- (n) denoting no middle name
-- O'Brien in soft brackets denotes her last name (at birth) is her last
name when she married.
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Clearing Up a Mystery
By Carli Francies Erlkonigin1(a)aol.com
Many thanks to Alma Robertson, who wrote in about the acronym 'NMI' standing
for "no middle initial." As someone who does have more than one middle name,
it never occurred to me that the "NMN" in the middle of my
great-grandmother's
name on her death certificate very likely stood for "no middle name" instead
of an actual series of names. Thanks for clearing up that small mystery!
Filling in the Blanks
By Ellen Filler ellvf(a)ctcweb.net
I am retired law enforcement. We used such initials as NMI, for no middle
initial, NMN, no middle name, ULN, unknown last name, UFN, unknown first name, or
just UNK for anything that we did not have information on. It seems that
anytime, as I remember, that we ran into anything unknown we used either UNK or U
plus other initials. Sometimes it was hard for us to decipher reports as some
officers made up their own.