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Hi,

In cases like this, I define the name as "Married name" in stead of "Birth name".

/Peter

> Hi,
>
> My father has spent the last 40 years tracing our family, and now I'm
> taking over the record keeping.
>
> I've imported his GEDCOM, which also included data from his cousin's
> GEDCOM. Now I have a load of women who married into the various
> families, but whose maiden name I don't know. So at the beginning of my
> People list tab I've got a mass of dashes:
> -
> --
> ---
>
> and so on. What's the correct way to include these in GRAMPS if I only
> know their married names? They are all in the right place, ie they all
> show up in the pedigree tab as married to the right person, but it just
> looks messy!
>
> TIA
>
> Dianne
>
>
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2009/5/10 Peter Landgren <peter.talken@...>:
> Hi,
>
> In cases like this, I define the name as "Married name" in stead of "Birth
> name".

So do I, Duncan

I put the married name in brackets (  ) so that, in the People list,  I 
can see at glance which names I need to  pursue later.

Pat

Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My father has spent the last 40 years tracing our family, and now I'm
> taking over the record keeping.
>
> I've imported his GEDCOM, which also included data from his cousin's
> GEDCOM. Now I have a load of women who married into the various
> families, but whose maiden name I don't know. So at the beginning of my
> People list tab I've got a mass of dashes:
> -
> --
> ---
>
> and so on. What's the correct way to include these in GRAMPS if I only
> know their married names? They are all in the right place, ie they all
> show up in the pedigree tab as married to the right person, but it just
> looks messy!
>
> TIA
>
> Dianne
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your
> production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to
> Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700
> Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image 
> processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com
> _______________________________________________
> Gramps-users mailing list
> Gramps-users@...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users
>
>

On Sunday 10 May 2009 05:24:13 Peter Landgren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In cases like this, I define the name as "Married name" in stead of "Birth
> name".
>
The only problem with using the married name as the preferred name (as it 
would be if you just enter it as the name), is that it then appears in 
reports as being "the" name.

Using parentheses or something similar to separate those with just the  
married name from "real" members of a particular family would be one way out, 
but it still tends to mislead in reports.

Perhaps a combination of using <blank> or "unknown" as the family name plus 
adding the married name as a second alternative would be another way out.

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