Genealogy Chat

I have found a daughter whose mother re-married and has taken her step-father's name in later census. Do I enter her on my tree twice with both fathers?

Sheila

I would put her on your tree with her birth name and then add a note somewhere giving the name she took on later.

Kath. x

I too would record her with birth name...and notes.

It would be interesting to see who she said was her father if she married later.

Gwyn

In general in genealogy people are recorded as their birth names.

Women particularly can change names several times due to marriages so it would be complicated if we tried recording them under different names. I have one relation who is on her 6th marriage so that will confuse future family historians.

Modern complicated families make for complicated family trees but it was also like that in the Middle Ages when most people were widowed and remarried several times and many people had half siblings.

Sue
x

Thank you both. I already have her with her father. I will add a note.

Sheila