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[Jacqueline]

How do I enter into FTM....

I have in my family, a person who changed his name when he became knighted. So he is a Sir.. That part is easy....But do you list him by his birth name, the hypenated name or what? Also this lot married ladies..how do you put them in....they aren't christened as ladies or sirs....hoping some of you Poms migh be able to help here ( No offence BTW ).

I don't want to post actual names here, as the current Earl..is still alive...So:

Child born to lets say...John Smith and Jane Citizen.named John
marries Lady Person.
Child of John and Lady Person..is born Person Smith ( given mothers maiden name as first name)
Child of Person Smith gets knighted and changes his name to Person Person-Smith.
All subsequent future Earls carry the Person-Smith surname.

So, do you enter them by their bith name, then add notes??
Confused, cause it makes searching for them very difficult...also hyphenated names..space between the first and second names, with dash in the middle???

hope this isn't too convoluted!!

jackie

[ozgirl]

Hi Jackie, what I've done for titled people is to add the title box to the details on the right, where Birth, marriage death are, by using Custom View and adding the box. I've also had people change their names completely so in this case I've added the AKA box and put the alternative name in there. They are however only shown in the index by their original name, I don't know if this can be altered. If they have children once they have changed their names, I use the new name for the children so that then appears in the index.

Hope you understand my explanation!

Linda

[Elaine ..Spain]

If you are entering double barreled names then you can use the backslash to indicate which part of the name is the surname.

For example if you enter the name as
Charles de la Houssaye Bouverie
then the surname in your index would be Bouverie and the first names Charles de la Houssaye

However, if you enter it as
Charles \de la Houssaye Bouverie\
then the surname in your index would be de la Houssaye Bouverie and the first name Charles

[Guy]

First thing to do is to use a good family history such as Brothers Keeper.
Such programs allow for the use of titles, prefixes and suffixes plus alternative names. ;)


Some poor quality though very popular programs do not have such facilities.
Cheers
Guy

[Little Nell]

Or have plebby relatives like the rest of us. Not a hyphen or a knighthood amongst them!

[Jacqueline]

Or have plebby relatives like the rest of us. Not a hyphen or a knighthood amongst them!

LOL Nell......actually most of mine are plebs....this lot took me by surprise! Thanks everyone for your help!

[Uncle John]

Different FT programs treat hyphenated surnames differently. I found that FTM 2005 needed an underline instead of a hyphen, but FTM 2010 seems to cope OK with hyphens. Though if your double-barrelled name is so posh it doesn't have a hyphen, you may need to think again!