Re: [Gramps-users] Names

[Stéphane C. <ste...@gm...>]

> My biggest concern is people's names.  I've got a few
> ancestors who used different names at different times in
> their lives, and not just surnames that changed on marriage.
> In one case, a woman who was married twice (and so had three
> surnames) was variously Mary, Sarah, Mary Sarah or Polly --
> it took quite a while to unravel that!  In this case, I've
> made "Mary Sarah" her given names and "Polly" her nick name.
>

I add a source for each name, which I find easy to do in Gramps, and I think
when it outputs the NarWeb page it does a good job.

But when I'm adding census data, data from tombstones,
> baptism records, and so on, I'd really like GRAMPS to store
> the name that was actually used in that source.  That way,
>

Here is my real-life example, which does include 10 different variations in
the name on the tombstone, census, etc:

http://charette.no-ip.com:1234/Charette/ppl/8/6/aa06b6afed67becad68.html

Stéphane