I have two examples of that, so I would like to know as well. Both are on my wife's side. A BIRNEY changed his name to BERNIE, my wife's mother's spelling, to avoid confusion with his cousin. His descendants are now getting confused with mother-in-law's rellies! I don't want to link the families; I want to keep them distinct. And in the American branch, a German immigrant called JULIN changed his name to STANFORD. That is like Paul's example. In both cases, I simply added a Research note of the change.
In the Ryerson Index (http:www.ryersonindex.org) we index the later name and treat the original name like a maiden name, and in Legacy, I can do an AKA for the individual. That is all that I ask for. Doug. On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:23:27 -0600 Paul Loftus <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an unusual problem to me, but you may have seen it before and > know how to manage it in Legacy Family Tree. > The COOPER family got on the boat in England but was listed at Ellis > Island as the LUCKEN family. Some individuals had a middle name of > Lucken. I collected enough COOPER and LUCKEN data to create a > timeline of events. It clearly shows the COOPER family from the 1871 > census until the 1891 census when the LUCKEN name appears. I > considered the possibility that I was dealing with two separate > familes with parents and children of the same names in the same > order, but am convinced that they are, in fact, the same family. > How do I manage this name change? How do I let the reader know, for > example, that Robert Cooper of England became Robert Lucken in the > USA? > > In a relational database, I could link the record of Robert Cooper to > to the record of Robert Lucken. Is that possible in Legacy? > > Paul Loftus > > > 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
