Eight Stylistic Decisions

1. What name will I use for each person?
    The name I know them as, or their birth name?  Their name in a foreign language, or in English? 

2. How will I record dates?
    American:  4/15/1965?  European: 15/4/1965?  15 April 1965?  Database: 1965-04-15?
    If you include the name of the month should it be April or Apr or some other abbreviation?

3. How will I record places?
    Using the name at the time of the event or the current name?  In what language?

4. How will I store research notes?

5. What information will I consider public?

6. Will I take a genetic or social view of children?

7. Will I take a religious, legal, or other view of marriage, families, and gender?

8. More generally, what information will I focus on?