On 11/09/2011 15:46, Willard Ellis 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.
I'm not sure what you mean by "should I have used their bilogical surname with both sets of parents". Any individual can only have one surname, plus any number of AKAs. You will have to call the adopted boys either Shafter or Ellis and then use the other name as an AKA. If Ellis is the name by which they were known most of their lives and which their descendants use, then I would make Ellis their main surname and Shafter an AKA. Children do not have to be entered with the same surname as their bilogical parent(s) even though Legacy will offer this as the default. You simply change the "suggested" surname to whatever you want. -- Jenny M Benson 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
