No kidding.
Names changed for example.
Joe Bloggs deserted from the Royal Navy and changed his name to Joe Smith. His service records show his real fathers name, Bert Bloggs. Four years later he married Jane Doe, on the certificate the fathers name is Stan Smith. For the rest of his life he used Smith and all children were given Smith as their Surname.
How do I enter this in to FH.
Have found where he got Smith from, was his Landlord at the time of marriage.
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Son with two Fathers.
Take a look at
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... iple_names
This will give you a good place to start. Personally I would not enter Stan Smith as a Father, as it would seem likely he was 'made up', I would enter the details as a name change event.
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... iple_names
This will give you a good place to start. Personally I would not enter Stan Smith as a Father, as it would seem likely he was 'made up', I would enter the details as a name change event.
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Son with two Fathers.
I would recommend that you always use the Association field to connect to non-biological parents. You can set their type to step-father, made-up-father, or anything else you like. You can then use that field to add sources, which you will need to do. That way the information is in your database, and won't get lost in your notes.
Incidentally, you can/should use the Association field to also set your sources for the biological parents as well. Just make sure that you are consistent with your type names i.e., mother/father or parent or child/bambino, etc.
Of all the data in an ancestor database, I would argue tracking the sources for your biological parents are the most important, and this is the only way the GEDCOM standard allows doing this using standard tags. See my article on 'The Power of Association' [ http://ancestorsnow.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... ation.html ] for a more detailed explanation.
You can also view any of the individuals on my website to see how I use this field to show the sources that associate parents with children, and their assessed certainties. On my ancestor lists these assessed certainties are shown by highlighting uncertain ascents, which provides a clear indication where further research should be directed. A very very useful field.
Incidentally, you can/should use the Association field to also set your sources for the biological parents as well. Just make sure that you are consistent with your type names i.e., mother/father or parent or child/bambino, etc.
Of all the data in an ancestor database, I would argue tracking the sources for your biological parents are the most important, and this is the only way the GEDCOM standard allows doing this using standard tags. See my article on 'The Power of Association' [ http://ancestorsnow.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... ation.html ] for a more detailed explanation.
You can also view any of the individuals on my website to see how I use this field to show the sources that associate parents with children, and their assessed certainties. On my ancestor lists these assessed certainties are shown by highlighting uncertain ascents, which provides a clear indication where further research should be directed. A very very useful field.