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Adding a married name to the search

FLQR
FLQR ✭
August 18, 2022 in Search

When I click the FamilySearch icon under Search Records (on the right pane of the details page for any person), I get a search page. It would be nice IF there were under "Add Ancestor Information" an automatically added married last name of a female. As it is, to find a death record or a widowed census record, I need to change the maiden name to her married last name and then redo the search. Ideally only the last maiden name would be used, but there are cases where that is undetermined such as when no marriage dates exist, so perhaps all potential married names from the page searched from could be the default, and then we users can close those we want.

Thank you.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 19, 2022 edited August 19, 2022 Answer ✓

    If you have the married name as an alternate name (in the "Other Information" section), both names will appear in the search.

    Example in this snip. Emma Odell Lowe is the maiden name. I have her married name, Emma Burgess, in the other information section. Both appear when I search:

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  • FLQR
    FLQR ✭
    August 19, 2022

    Good point. I will use that going forward. Thank you.

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  • melville,dl
    melville,dl ✭✭
    August 19, 2022

    you can also add the husband's surname as a search criteria.

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  • MrsLCJ
    MrsLCJ ✭
    December 30, 2022

    I don't know whether it is possible, but it would be nice if we could specify, from this year to this, (pre-marriage) look for this name, with these parents and siblings. Look in this location. From this later year until this year, (married) look for this married name and this spouse and these children. Look in this other location.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 30, 2022

    @MrsLCJ, you're essentially describing two different searches. Is there a reason you want to do them simultaneously?

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 30, 2022 edited December 30, 2022

    I generally remove any alternate name that appears in a search from the Details page. I just find it better in getting results to make a number of separate searches relating to the different events and time periods in which (a woman, more commonly) has been known by multiple last names.

    Some of the females in my branches married two or three times - sometimes using the name of the last husband, but occasionally reverting to their maiden name. So, it can become very difficult trying to carry out searches for different events simultaneously, as Julia suggests. I've never had a problem with having to make multiple searches.

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