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From: "Teresa" <>
Subject: Entering a child with multiple surnames into a datafile
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 20:14:00 -0600


Over the weekend a cousin contacted me and will be helping me update her
line of our family. After you read her story, my question is: How should she
be listed in the family, that is, under what name? I use the PAF genealogy
program (if that makes a difference).

I'm not using the names she gave me but substituting other names...

Her grandfather was Mike Jones. He married but was divorced because he was
never home. He was an aviator, in the Air Corp at the time of WWII. After
the war he went to South America, met and married Maria. While in S.A. he
became ill and died. A month later his son was born. Maria remarried and
when the boy, Mike Jr., was 10, he was sent to U.S. to a foster home. The
boy changed his name from Jones to the surname of his foster family, Davis.
Mike Jones Jr. who is now Mike Davis married and had a child. The birth
certificate gave the child's name as Sarah Davis. Mike Jr. and his wife
divorce.

Mike's ex-wife remarried to Jim Hanson and he adopted little Sarah and now
she is Sarah Hanson. In the meantime, Mike Jr. decides he wants to go back
to his father's name and now he is Mike Jones Jr. again.

How should Sarah be entered into the records? as Sarah Davis? as Sarah
Jones? as Sarah Hanson? She is now married and is currently Sarah Monroe.

I think I know the answer, which includes lots of notes, but maybe there's a
more correct way than what I am thinking. What are your thoughts?

Teresa

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