If you enter Marriages 1913 in WinBMD (version I have is 4.4.0 - find version in Help About) then when you open your grid there is a column for Spouse. See recent discussion in list archives about cases where the spouse has two names Smith or Jones etc. Hope this helps Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate McCain" <kate.mccain@cis.drexel.edu> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:13 PM Subject: name of spouse in 1913 marriage records > Having survived the challenges of 1846 handwriting, I now find myself in > 1913 marriages, with a column for the spouse's name. Entry # 13(g) in the > Knowledge Base alludes to this -- noting the "extra field" but not really > telling us what to do with it. The entry suggests that there may be an > upgrade of the data entry software to accommodate this field (not a middle > name, after all) "if FreeBMD can accept it" but MacBMD, at least, lacks > this feature. > > I know I saw something on this recently on the list, but I don't know how > to access the listserv archives. Would a kind soul tell me the current > practice? I am all in favor of TWYS but I suspect that a spouse's name is > not the same thing as a title. > > On a related subject, in 1913 they were not leaving spaces between > abbrieviations and main names of districts -- S.Moulton instead of S. > Moulton. Since I know that characters have their own ascii codes, I assume > that we TWYS and that there is a mapping function somewhere down the line > where S.Moulton and S. Moulton will be normalized. > > Thanks in advance, > > Kate McCain > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

Apologies for not reading the question carefully. I have now sent a suggestion off-list which will need a little experimentation. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Coleman" <jeff.coleman@ntlworld.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 12:39 AM Subject: Re: name of spouse in 1913 marriage records > If you enter Marriages 1913 in WinBMD (version I have is 4.4.0 - find > version in Help About) then when you open your grid there is a column for > Spouse. > > See recent discussion in list archives about cases where the spouse has > two names Smith or Jones etc. > > Hope this helps > Jeff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kate McCain" <kate.mccain@cis.drexel.edu> > To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:13 PM > Subject: name of spouse in 1913 marriage records > > >> Having survived the challenges of 1846 handwriting, I now find myself in >> 1913 marriages, with a column for the spouse's name. Entry # 13(g) in the >> Knowledge Base alludes to this -- noting the "extra field" but not really >> telling us what to do with it. The entry suggests that there may be an >> upgrade of the data entry software to accommodate this field (not a >> middle >> name, after all) "if FreeBMD can accept it" but MacBMD, at least, lacks >> this feature. >> >> I know I saw something on this recently on the list, but I don't know how >> to access the listserv archives. Would a kind soul tell me the current >> practice? I am all in favor of TWYS but I suspect that a spouse's name is >> not the same thing as a title. >> >> On a related subject, in 1913 they were not leaving spaces between >> abbrieviations and main names of districts -- S.Moulton instead of S. >> Moulton. Since I know that characters have their own ascii codes, I >> assume >> that we TWYS and that there is a mapping function somewhere down the >> line >> where S.Moulton and S. Moulton will be normalized. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Kate McCain >> >> >> ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >> Want to help FreeBMD? >> Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> >> > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions and Archives > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/FreeUK/FreeBMD-Admins.html > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >