Keith, I believe you to be correct here. I have always considered that AKAs are primarily for legal names, such as those given after the registration of the birth, through marriage or by deed-poll. I also use them where there are standard(?) spelling variations due to illiteracy eg. "Hayes" and "Heyes" which for the same person may vary in parish registers, birth, marriage, death certificates etc. Both names being perfectly valid. I do not use them for nick-names, or what one might call familiar names such as "Dan" for "Daniel", "Jim" for "James" and so on, as I consider that is what the quoted name option is for.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ *New Tutorial* Publish your Web Pages - Blogs http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ > Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:55:12 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Surname after divorce on reports > > Discovered my problem after my post - SORRY! I do always enter > females by their birth (maiden) name. One of my AKAs was sneaking > into the picture and caught my eye - a close read showed that is was > marked correctly. > > I would guess that I would have to use the AKA field for a legally > changed name too - ie) My mother was married a second time - divorced > and wished to return to her previous husband's last name so that it > would again match her children and grandchildren. The courts granted > this - so her death cert., etc. show the first married name rather > than the later one. Confusing but workable with the AKA system. > > Thanks > Keith > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Michele Lewis > wrote: >> Your reports should be showing the female's MAIDEN name. The correct way to >> enter females is my maiden name. All married names should be in the AKA >> field. >> >> michele >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "GeoSci" >> To: "Legacy User Group" >> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:39 PM >> Subject: [LegacyUG] Surname after divorce on reports >> >> >>> Several in my files have gone through divorces - and returned to a >>> maiden name (or previous married name) - through the courts. But >>> reports show the divorces surname since that was the last one that was >>> legal. Any way to change the legal last name? This would also apply >>> to a legal name change of any kind. >>> >>> Ideas?? >>> >>> -- >>> Surnames: McKain, Horn, Riale, Ulrich, Erisman, Leiphart, Reed and Henry >>> >>> Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 >>> EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 >>> _________________________________________________________________ BigSnapSearch.com - 24 prizes a day, every day - Search Now! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
