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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Women's married names
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:28:14 -0800
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20041216072729.034e1160@mail.internode.on.net>


I don't understand the beef with narrative reports because it does not
appear to me that ANY married name is assumed. I kept my birth-given
surname when I married. My daughter's individual narrative reads: "Shannon
Louise Baz-Casper, daughter of John Joseph Baz-Dresch and Cheri Luann
Casper, was born on . . . ." A married name is NOT assumed for me.
However, my husband's narrative report shows his mother's maiden name and
married name: "John Joseph Baz-Dresch, son of Rafael Maria de la Luz Felix
Enrique Agustin del Sogrado Corazon de Jesus and Mary Edith (Evans) Baz y
Dresch, was born on . . . ."

The difference is that for my mother-in-law I've added a married name
identifier; for myself, I have not. Therefore, it appears that the
convention (maiden) married only comes into play if the female/mother has a
married name identifier. If she does not, no married name is assumed. I
used the very same report in both instances so that is the only difference
that I can attribute to the appearance of the married name.

Perhaps someone else would like to run a test; I used the Individual
Narrative.

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Lamacraft [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 1:05 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Women's married names


Wim,

I had not realized that GenBox was so culturally *one-eyed* - meaning
US-oriented.

There are many cultures where there is not an _automatic_ assumption of the
males's surname on Marriage.

**PLEASE implore Bill Flight to fix this. **

Luckily, I have not tried to use GenBox to report on my own family. If had
shown such reports to certain partners, the content would have been harshly
disparaged as _inaccurate_ . "You should have known better than to use a
program that forces the assumption of a marriage name. I will never be
known by that name".

Robin
At 17:49 15/12/2004 +0100, Wim wrote:
>Hi Chi
>
>Unfortunately not. This happens in narratives when referring to the parents
>of an individual. I have asked for a feature on the beta-list where you
were
>allowed to 'construct' your own display of parent-names but I didn't get a
>lot of support on that. Another option could be to have more choices on the
>Report Options View.
>
>What you can do is omit these parent-names from reports. On the Report
>Options View, select All under "Content for", then select "Omit" in the
>Parents-box.
>
>Gr. Wim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chi Vu [mailto:]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 5:17 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: [GENBOX] Women's married names
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > In the Narrative Reports, married women's names are shown as
> > "Jane Mary
> > (Olson) Smith", where Olson is her maiden name and Smith is
> > her husband's last name. Is there a way to make the report
> > show the maiden names only, that is "Jane Mary Olson"? In
> > some cultures, women do not legally change their names when
> > they marry, thus the report is incorrect.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chi
> >
> >
> >
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