Make married name search automatic
If a woman has a spouse attached, please search for her under 2 different surnames automatically. (married and maiden names)
Then , I will not have to always add alternate-married names to ALL the women in my tree.
Thanks.
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please search for her under 2 different surnames automatically
Clarification required from poster as to how this would apply for women who had multiple marriages - or variants of surname(s). Is suggestion that automatic search should be literally on just 2 names found in profile?
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The practice of switching a woman's family on marriage is very, very far from universal.
In Hungary, before a change in the rules in the 1970s (yes, nineteen seventies, i.e., late 20th century), switching just one's family name upon marriage was not among the options. This means that for a woman who married before that rule change, a name consisting of her given name and his surname is not her. It is 100% guaranteed to be someone else, unless she married a man who happened to have the same surname as her. Thus, this suggestion would result in a search for two different women.
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I have learned that when I am researching females and looking for records of later life meaning after marriage, I can go to the family search heading on the right of the person page under search, BUT I need to put in the married name in place of the maiden surname and only then will death records and obituaries appear at the top of the results. I know many experienced geneologists do this, but could there be a way to help novices to learn this?
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@Paul W I guess I'd like Tree Search to automatically add surnames for all husbands listed into the search for me.
@Julia Szent-Györgyi Agree that not all cultures do this to their women. Unfortunately for most of my tree, they do. Perhaps some automation could turn this on or off depending on the locale.
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Ancestry.com searches do this.
It should be a general search option that is usually on, but which you can also turn off when you don't want it to happen. I assume that the poster means that it would also search for the woman's given name with each of the surnames of the men linked as a husband.
No one should have to add alternate married names to all the married women in their ancestry.
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@beanbatch Your suggestion of "automation" just gave us old-timers the shivers. The existing automated processes have proven to be less than beneficial, to be kind.
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Agree, this is my issue also. Until I find the married surname of almost all wives in my tree (the surname she had when she died), the death records & obituaries are hidden from searching. When I manually add the married name (for husbands already attached into the wife's tree) as an Alternate Name, searching finds them.
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