---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:13:23 +0100 > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com > From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to retain wife's married name as entered > > Bill Rhodes wrote >>GGM Mary Hinton married Joseph Brown. >>In Legacy I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton. >>Joseph died five years later. >> >>Marriage #2 was to George Miller. >>I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton Brown. >> >>Problem: When I do the above, Legacy automatically changes her (Wife's) >>name to Mary Hinton Brown - which is wrong and not as I entered. >> >>So my question is "how can I keep her name the same as I enter it >>without Legacy changing it?" > > Where are you entering the wife's name that Legacy is changing? I don't > understand why you are having to enter the woman's name twice. > > When you add a wife to a man and she is not already in your database you > create a new individual using her maiden surname - Mary Hinton. > You don't need to enter her again when she re-marries, you just link her > to the second husband but she still has the same maiden name. > > I don't use the facility to show married surnames in lists, but I am > sure Legacy creates them by using the woman's forenames and the > husband's surname. I don't think there is any way it will retain a > previous married surname if she marries again. > -- > Jenny M Benson >
I agree, Jenny, and nor will it allow someone to have what in effect would be two maiden names ie. the one used for the first marriage and then the one used for the second marriage. What I do is to enter a Marriage Note to say that she married the second time using her first married name. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage 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/ _____________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Use Hotmail to send and receive mail from your different email accounts. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/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