Bill Rhodes wrote
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.
I still don't understand why you talk about *entering* the wife's name
on her second marriage. If you already have the woman in you file and
you already have her first husband, you simply enter a new man as her
second husband.
What you might well wish to do is record the exact wording of the Source
"document" you are citing for this marriage. (I put "document" in
inverted commas because I realise it might not be an actual document
which is your Source.) If the Jane Doe was married to Joe Bloggs and
after his death marries Jack Smith she might have her name cited on the
marriage record (Certificate, Parish Register, whatever) as Jane Doe
Bloggs and if so that is what you enter in your Source Citation. Legacy
will have no objection to that.
(Actually, it is always correct to copy exactly what is written in a
Source record, so had she been recorded as Jane Blogs, Jane Do Bloggs or
even Mary Bloggs, that is what you would enter in the Source Citation.)
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Jenny M Benson
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