Can I ask how people manage situations where a individual's surname changes, other than by marriage.
I have instances where people have deliberately changed their surnames in order to 'anglicise' them, or where surnames have changed via deed poll when people re-marry and the children adopt the surname of their step-father.
I have created a deed-poll event, but it does not satisfactorily document the
event, and there does not seem to be an event to cover either an individual or family adoption of a new name. The situation arises frequently with Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe and the Polish/Russian borders (White Russia).
Any ideas on how to handle this in FH would be greatly appreciated.
David
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Surname changes
Hi Jane
Yes, that helps a bit, but I have problems with an individual who is first adopted, having a name change at that point, and then has another name change later by deed poll.
I did actually create a Name Change attribute as a custon fact that gives me a narrative like 'He changed his name to on at .'
This at least allows me to add a source to the attribute, e.g. the London Gazette entry, with a full transcription to accompany the source record. However, I would have thought that a name change is an event, rather than an attribute? And with the event's attributes being the from and to names, and the method used to change the name, that would then allow a narrative of the form 'he changed his name from to on at by ' to be generated.
As an aside, is it possible to have an alternate line style in diagrams for adopted children? I would like to be able to show both natural and adopted parents on the same tree; this is, after all a Family History, rather than just a recording of a bloodline. A different linestyle (and box style, too, possibly) for the adopted side would make the relationships clearer rather than confusing with apparenently several sets of parents.
Adoption has also a few legal technicalilities. If the adopted parents separate, and then re-marry, tha parent that the child stays with does not then have the adopted parent's new partner as an adopted parent unless that new partner actually goes through the legal adoption process. Clearly, this can have seious implications for inheritance, where adopted children get short shrift anyway. Being able to use different linestyles to denote different blodd and legal relationships would allow the lines of the adoptive, de-facto, and natural parents to remain clear in complex relationships.
Yes, that helps a bit, but I have problems with an individual who is first adopted, having a name change at that point, and then has another name change later by deed poll.
I did actually create a Name Change attribute as a custon fact that gives me a narrative like 'He changed his name to on at .'
This at least allows me to add a source to the attribute, e.g. the London Gazette entry, with a full transcription to accompany the source record. However, I would have thought that a name change is an event, rather than an attribute? And with the event's attributes being the from and to names, and the method used to change the name, that would then allow a narrative of the form 'he changed his name from to on at by ' to be generated.
As an aside, is it possible to have an alternate line style in diagrams for adopted children? I would like to be able to show both natural and adopted parents on the same tree; this is, after all a Family History, rather than just a recording of a bloodline. A different linestyle (and box style, too, possibly) for the adopted side would make the relationships clearer rather than confusing with apparenently several sets of parents.
Adoption has also a few legal technicalilities. If the adopted parents separate, and then re-marry, tha parent that the child stays with does not then have the adopted parent's new partner as an adopted parent unless that new partner actually goes through the legal adoption process. Clearly, this can have seious implications for inheritance, where adopted children get short shrift anyway. Being able to use different linestyles to denote different blodd and legal relationships would allow the lines of the adoptive, de-facto, and natural parents to remain clear in complex relationships.
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You can't at the moment define multiple data fields for an event or attribute, there is a wish list item for it.
For now why not just overide the text or add a note to contain the information you can't fit in.
You can change the font for adopted children or add an icon, by setting an adopted flag on them and using that to condition the font change or icon. (V3 only)
For now why not just overide the text or add a note to contain the information you can't fit in.
You can change the font for adopted children or add an icon, by setting an adopted flag on them and using that to condition the font change or icon. (V3 only)