Although not relevant to the ABD list, I had Norwegian & French, seamen g grandfathers who anglicized their names and had no idea how to display these in my family tree, so I gave their anglicized names in the headings and made notes in FTM 'NOTES' that their original names were....and showed that their names had been anglicized to the names shown on the tree. 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. I have no idea if this is correct but it does show both names as being recorded. Cheers Joan > There doesn't seem to be one "standard" way to do this. > Some people record the name as it was used at the time. > Others record them with the current/most common form and then put the > spelling(s) used at the time in a note. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 465 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message