Ian,
1) add an AKA - also known as - hover over the icons on Family View or
the Individual Information screen and you'll find it.
2) add an event - call it Change of Name or Deed Poll or whatever you like.
3) Note you don't do this for change of name on Marriage - there is a
place on the Marriage Information screen to note Married names and you
can choose to see them on the Name List, the Index View and in Indexes
to book - and in all those places you can also choose to show AKAs.
There is an option in Options - Customise 2.8 where you can choose to
set the custom of wives taking their husband's surname to be the
default. This setting can be overridden in the Marriage Information so
you set it for what is normal for you.
4) In reports you can include AKAs in the body of the report - choose in
the Report options on the Include tab.
5) Legacy is developed in the US but it's not as US-centric as you seem
to think.
6) the Legacy User Manual isn't designed to answer every data input
question but to give you an overview of the program and how to use the
main features. It is a subset of the inbuilt Help accessed from every
screen either with a Help button or F1 key.
Geoff Rasmussen's Legacy Unlocked is more about how to add particular
types of data. It's based on his Watch Geoff Live webinars.
I suggest you get a webinar subscription and watch relevant webinars -
or just watch the free ones. You will find that there are more US based
webinars than for other parts of the world but there are webinars on
research in all sorts of places. Besides some of the US ones are equally
valid wherever you are searching - the techniques are the same - eg the
ones on Breaking down brick walls by Marian Pierre-Louis. I'm a much
better researcher for watching them despite the fact her examples are US
based and I very rarely do any US research - only 1% of my database
lived at some time in the USA.
Cathy
Ian Thomas wrote:
I realise Legacy FT is a USA-centric programme, and I’m not clued up
with usual terminology in genealogy programmes whatever their bias.
Can someone please explain how Legacy handles / describes situations
where people have changed names, either by a Lastname used in practice
/ everyday usage, or by legally changing their name (by what is known
in Australia / UK as Deed Poll)?
I haven’t found a search term that gives me explaantations within the
very large PDF user manual for Legacy v8.0 Deluxe.
Ian Thomas
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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