I'd record both names, one as an aka. (There's debate on how to use the aka, and I use it for all name variations, not strictly aka's) Choose the name you want as the primary name - I'd pick the name after the adoption, as that's the legal name used for the majority of their life (I'm assuming they were adopted as young people.) Adding an adoption event should be signal enough that research beyond that date should use the prior version of the name. I've not tried, but in this case maybe you could use the title or suffix field of the name to include something like "(pre-adoption)". That way on reports it would read something like 'Joe Ellis was also know as (pre-adoption) Joe Shafer, Lil' Joey...'
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Willard Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > My father adopted to males during his second marriage and changed > their surnames from Shafer to Ellis. The off springs from these two > males also have the Ellis surname. I'm not sure how I should have > listed these two adopted males. I have linked them to my father and > his second wife with the Ellis surname and shown in the child status > as father adopted and mother biological. Then I linked them to their > biological father with the Ellis surname even though their original > surname is Shafer. Should I have used their biological surname with > both sets of parents. If I did that, then their children would the > wrong surname and I would have to make a change there and explain why. > Is their a better way to do this. It seems that this name change > thing will put a hiccup in my research. > > Bill Ellis > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
