Hello List: I am trying to understand the following about names and marriages and children: Example: Johann Tresch marries Rosa Baumann They then hyphenate the name to Tresch-Baumann Question: are the children known as Tresch-Baumann? or just by Tresch? for instance- Clara Tresch-Baumann. Then when Clara marries Josef Steiner, she becomes Clara Stiner-Tresch. Correct? I am having trouble keeping this all straight when I do charts. Has anyone else had problems with this? Should I just leave out all the hyphenated parts and keep the woman with her birth last name? And the children with the father's last name? I have probably answered my own question. Thanks, "rwalker"