Thu 12/17/2020 11:34 PM
Beth,
When you create a sweater and use the initials, the result can be inspiring. John Paul Elcik is JPE, but the common practice is to place an enlarged copy of the surname’s initial in the middle as in:
JEP
I wanted to call JP Jeep. Sturdy, rugged… It never caught on with anybody but me. Lol.
John
P.S. It would be interesting for research to add how individuals were informally addressed in a separate field for ancestry research. Using the first name field for the given name and a nickname is inconvenient at best.