This is quite common whether the person changed their name upon leaving their mother country, upon arrival, or during citizenship proceeding. I put alternative names in the section for that (AKA) AND I put the information in the facts/events section - if it occurred in ship manifest records or in their citizenship records. Realize that you can make whatever use you want of your facts and events. Linda McCauley gave a presentation recently (LVUG Hangout for October) in our Legacy Virtual Users' Group about how she uses Events/Facts. She puts photographs in that section and her research notes - it prints out great and works as a timeline because you can move the information around by date order. The presentation was recorded and is available to watch on the LVUG page and on YouTube.
Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, No. 5089 Legacy Virtual Users' Group One Place Studies - Plate Cove, Newfoundland On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Doug Laidlaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > 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
