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   Dorothy J Heydt to Evelyn C. Leeper   
   Re: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IEFLSUNJRjogTWFyZ3LDqX   
   25 Aug 25 23:00:37   
   
   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <108ifi4$3ie3r$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >On 8/25/25 12:31 PM, Steve Coltrin wrote:   
   >> begin  fnord   
   >> "Evelyn C. Leeper"  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> Does anyone know if Margrét Helgadóttir prefers to be referred to as   
   >>> "Margrét", "Helgadóttir", or "Margrét Helgadóttir" in references after   
   >>> the first?   
   >>   
   >> Her authority record in OCLC, and all the bibs I checked, use the last   
   >> name first version.  That said, the authority record does not have any   
   >> comment field stating "email from author" or anything similar, so I   
   >> would not call that an absolutely unimpeachable source.   
   >>   
   >   
   >I assume that means the subsequent references should be "Helgadóttir"?   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   One could try reading English language reports from Iceland.   
   RUV, Reykjavik Grapevine, mbl.is ...  Sources like that  to see   
   how they report peoples names.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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