US New York NAT RECORDS PART E. I am uncertain if I indexed the name correctly for

Lisa Kay Horlacher · November 22, 2023

images 1 & 2. The name was typed as Carlos Perez, but the name under which he entered the US was Carlos Manuel De Jesus Perez y Montero.

This is how I indexed image 1. GN: Carlos or Carlos Manuel de Jesus

SN: Perez or Perez y Montero

This is how I indexed image 2. GN: Carlos Manuel or Carlos Manuel de Jesus

SN: Perez or Perez y Montero Is this correct?

Melissa S Himes · November 22, 2023

de is part of the surname.

I would index this as

GN: Carlos Manuel

SN: Perez or de Jesus Perez y Montero

From the link below:

In Spanish, the preposition particle "de" ("of") is used as a conjunction in two-surname spelling styles, and to disambiguate a surname, e.g. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Pedro López de Ayala, and Vasco Núñez de Balboa, as in many conquistador names.
In the sixteenth century, the Spanish adopted the conjunction "y" ("and") to distinguish a person's surnames, e.g. Luis de Góngora y Argote or Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. The conjunction '"y" avoids confusion when the paternal surname might appear to be a given name. Without it, the Santiago Ramón y Cajal might appear to be named Santiago Ramón and surnamed Cajal, when actually his given name is Santiago and Ramón y Cajal is his surname.
When the maternal surname begins with an "i" vowel sound (written with I, Y, Hi + consonant), Spanish substitutes "e in place of y", e.g. Eduardo Dato e Iradier.[2]

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