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.

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/

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/ >