Hello, I am not a FTM user, but do use Legacy and learned of a great hint recently re surnames - when I don't know them! This may work for you within FTM! Use double square brackets [[ ]] and enter within them the husband's surname where you would normally enter the wife's maiden name. Once you discover the wife's maiden name you can go back and replace the surname in the square brackets. This at least ties the wife in on the name's list rather than have her as simply Mary / Jane or whatever in the name's list. Just a suggestion! Diane - Western Australia PS I haven't yet discovered how to signify "twins" but you could probably use the square bracket system after the surname of both the children who are twins. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Ron Kerrison <[email protected]>wrote: > A little a propos the "twins" debate and FTM:- > > how's about entering info on , let us say, Mr John Brown, born 1900; and > his > wife Mrs Mary Brown whose maiden name one does not know? Entering ' Mary > Brown' in the 'Wife' slot will not help any future research. > > I would put 'Mary Mrs 1800 John Brown' until I discovered her maiden name. > > Perhaps there is a more conventional solution but the above "does me". > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >