I treat married women the same way you do, In that I use the maiden name (not married name), But if she legaly changed her name prior to marriage I would list her legally changed name. Alan Jones Mission Viejo, Calif. -----Original Message----- From: Rollei Little [mailto:rollei_little@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:51 PM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Change in adoption names I think I have to disagree on this one. What about a married woman? When she marries she legally changes her name but you wouldn't change it in PAF. I would be inclined to enter First name (Birth name) New name. Rollei (in Australia) >From: "Alan Jones at home" <alanjones10@cox.net> >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Change in adoption names >Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:30:11 -0700 > >I use a person's legal name. So if they legally changed it, that is >what I use. Of course I explain it all in the notes and I even use the >Also Known As / Other names field to put in the name at birth. When you >see the biological father, it is accurate that that child has a >different name because they legally changed it. Even if they were not >adopted, if the child legally changed their name it should recorded >that way in their family tree. > > > >Alan Jones >Mission Viejo, Calif. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: richcar@cfl.rr.com [mailto:richcar@cfl.rr.com] >Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:07 PM >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PAF-5] Change in adoption names > > >Hope someone can help us with this. Here is the problem: It involves >birth names and adoption. >When we enter the original birth name with the biological father it is >fine. But then the child was adopted by her stepfather and while in >court her entire >name was changed. The program will list one man as biological and one >as >adopted. However, we cannot find a way to reflect the change in name. >If >we make the adopted parent primary and use the new name, then the name >with >the birth father is wrong. If we use the name at birth, it does not >change >with the addition of the adoption. The problem then becomes when she >marries it uses her birth name and she has not used that name in many >years. >We have changed the names around, changed who is primary, we are going >in >circles and cannot arrive at a birth name, and the adopted name. We are >using 5.0. Can anyone > .help?????? Thank you, C Fancher Someone told me that there >hada been some emails on this >subject here, but I only just subscribesd so don't know how to go and >get back emails either. > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index >Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service >http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== AVG Anti-Virus Users Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab.