On this page: Description, Step by Step, Notes

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Description

Change Married Name may be used to change specific fields within Name-Marr events. The options for this feature are similar to those of Add Married Name. If you have already added many married names to your database, but you would like to change how those names appear or if you would like to add the woman's maiden name to the suffix field, you should use this feature.

Change Married Name supports many different options, so these instructions are longer than the instructions for most other functions. Some options include footnotes that expand the explanation. If you still don't understand, experiment on a test database. In some cases, you may need to open the database in TMG to see the effect of the option.

Step by Step

  1. Choose Change Married Name from the function tree.
  2. If you would like to add a prefix (title) to the names, key it in the "Prefix:"text box.
  3. If you would like to change whether TMG displays the woman's given name as part of the married name, select Set "Infer Given Name" flag True or Set "Infer Given Name" flag False from the Given Names: pull down list.

    If you do not want to change how the "Infer Given Name" flag is set, or if you are not sure you understand how TMG uses the "Infer Given Name" flag, select Do not change "Infer Given Name" flag from the Given Names: pull down list.

  4. If you would like to copy the primary surname (typically, the woman's maiden name) to the suffix field of the Name-Marr event, make sure that Copy primary surname to suffix is checked.1
  5. If you Copy primary surname to suffix is checked, a set of other options appear. See the description of these options below under Note 1.
  6. Click the [Change Married Name] button.

The program will updates the Name-Marr events according to the options you have selected.

See the note about the name index.

Notes

  1. This flag duplicates a convention that has been used by TMG users where a woman's maiden name is placed in the suffix field of married name entries. When the maiden name appears in the suffix field, it makes it easier to identify married names in the picklist. Here's an example of how a particular woman's entries might look in the picklist, using a recognizable name:
    Primary/maiden name entry: TODD, Mary Ann
    Married name entry: LINCOLN, Mary Ann (Todd)

    By default, the program puts the maiden name in parentheses and adds the hyphen exclusion marker so that the maiden name does not print in reports. The picklist ignores the exclusion marker.

    You can specify your own "header" to replace "-(" and your own "trailer" to replace ")". You can also specify a suffix to assign when the woman has no primary surname. The program's default is an empty string (nothing is stored in the prefix), but you might choose "-(?)" or something similar.

Thanks to Sherri Hessick and Dick Martin who brought this convention to my attention via the TMG-L mailing list, and to Robin Lamacraft and others who described their own modifications to the basic technique.

Copyright © 2012 by John Cardinal
This page last changed on 12 Feb 2006.