Court-Ordered Name Change

[donnadenyer]

Is there a clever (or any other) way to handle a court-ordered name change?

I've recently discovered a "branch" of the family named "Hogg", some children of which legally changed their names to "Tenant." There was no marriage / adoption involved; apparently they just didn't want to be saddled with the family name. Ironically, this was described in a history of the town, with a little "ditty" written by one of the children: "Hogg by name and hog by nature; Tenant now by legislature."

I have included that quote in the Notes, but I'd like to get the name into a Name field to facilitate searching, etc.

[Howard Metcalfe]

Dec 3, 2008 12:48:44 GMT -5 donnadenyer said:

Is there a clever (or any other) way to handle a court-ordered name change?

I've recently discovered a "branch" of the family named "Hogg", some children of which legally changed their names to "Tenant." There was no marriage / adoption involved; apparently they just didn't want to be saddled with the family name. Ironically, this was described in a history of the town, with a little "ditty" written by one of the children: "Hogg by name and hog by nature; Tenant now by legislature."

I have included that quote in the Notes, but I'd like to get the name into a Name field to facilitate searching, etc.

Assume one of the children to change his surname was Joe Hogg now Joe Tenant.

I would use Tenant as the surname for Joe's children but leave Hogg as the Joe's surname since it was his birth name.

Or you could use Tenant as the Joe's surname since that was his wish.

Or you could enter Hogg/Tenant, Hogg (Tenant) or Tenant (Hogg) as Joe's surname to make searching a bit easier.

Of course, in any case, this surname change should be documented in Joe's notes.

Best regards,
Howard