Alternate Names
I don't know about you, but when it comes to my genealogy skills, I feel like I am constantly learning and sometimes, re-learning? I'm currently 're-learning' about 'alternate names.' Thanks to a post in the RootsMagic Users Facebook group about the 'Alternate Name' fact, I've been prompted to evaluate how I deal with married names. When I migrated my data from The Master Genealogist (TMG) to RootsMagic, the 'Name-Marr' event from TMG was automatically converted to the 'Alternate Name' fact in Roots Magic. However, I didn't do a good job of learning about my new software since I didn't realize the correlation between the 'Name-Marr' and 'Alternate Name' facts. Nor did I realize that I had to create the fact for a female when adding a spouse. After reading the FB post, I am going back to make sure the I have added the Alternate Name Fact -- especially for my direct lines. As I've been work...