Joan Birtles wrote: >... > >I also had the same problem with my CHALMERS/STUART of Aberdeen ancestry as >my gg grandfather was born a CHALMERS his mother never married but the Kirk >Session records showed that his father's name was STUART and later William >changed his name from Chalmers to Stuart, so I entered as a Stuart and put >in the notes he was born a Chalmers. > > This bears out my point about "the tail wagging the dog". The software is forcing you to decide that he was called the one thing or the other, when, as you know, he was called both, but at different points in his life. It should not be beyond the wit of man to devise software which, while keeping track of the individual, would automatically show him as William CHALMERS as a child, but William STUART as a father. >I have no idea if this is correct but it does show both names as being >recorded. > > It sounds like the best your software will *allow* you to do. My point is that we shouldn't let the software dictate to us in this way! Gavin Bell