Thanks to all who responded to my query. From the replies I got I can only assume that Legacy will not allow me to enter the wife's name on her second marriage the way I *prefer* to enter it. So I shall just live with Legacy's rule that I must use the same maiden name on both marriages - and I assume it would hold true even for 3rd and 4th and etc. marriages. Thanks again.
Bill R. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:18 PM, ronald ferguson <ronfe...@msn.com> wrote: > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:13:23 +0100 > > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com > > From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to retain wife's married name as entered > > > > Bill Rhodes wrote > >>GGM Mary Hinton married Joseph Brown. > >>In Legacy I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton. > >>Joseph died five years later. > >> > >>Marriage #2 was to George Miller. > >>I entered Wife's name as Mary Hinton Brown. > >> > >>Problem: When I do the above, Legacy automatically changes her (Wife's) > >>name to Mary Hinton Brown - which is wrong and not as I entered. > >> > >>So my question is "how can I keep her name the same as I enter it > >>without Legacy changing it?" > > > > Where are you entering the wife's name that Legacy is changing? I don't > > understand why you are having to enter the woman's name twice. > > > > When you add a wife to a man and she is not already in your database you > > create a new individual using her maiden surname - Mary Hinton. > > You don't need to enter her again when she re-marries, you just link her > > to the second husband but she still has the same maiden name. > > > > I don't use the facility to show married surnames in lists, but I am > > sure Legacy creates them by using the woman's forenames and the > > husband's surname. I don't think there is any way it will retain a > > previous married surname if she marries again. > > -- > > Jenny M Benson > > > > I agree, Jenny, and nor will it allow someone to have what in effect would > be two maiden names ie. the one used for the first marriage and then the one > used for the second marriage. > > What I do is to enter a Marriage Note to say that she married the second > time using her first married name. > > Ron Ferguson > _____________________________________________________________________ > New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Use Hotmail to send and receive mail from your different email accounts. > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > >
