Bill, that only makes sense. A "maiden" name is from before any marriages and during the maiden years. All other names are marriage names from various marriages.

God bless,
Ellen Kramer

Researching and loving Dorman, Kramer, Mirarchi, Procopio, Renninger and Staudt-Stoudt-Stout families


On Sep 12, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Bill Rhodes wrote:

Thanks to all who responded to my query. From the replies I got I can only assume that Legacy will not allow me to enter the wife's name on her second marriage the way I prefer to enter it. So I shall just live with Legacy's rule that I must use the same maiden name on both marriages - and I assume it would hold true even for 3rd and 4th and etc. marriages.
Thanks again.

Bill R.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:18 PM, ronald ferguson <ronfe...@msn.com> wrote:


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> 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
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