Genealogy Chat

Thanks everyone for your replies. One family changed their name three times just to make it awkward. Still who said genealogy was easy.

Yep!
Enter it as you find it written -
My grandmothers maiden name was Leport
I have some birth cert for the 1850s & 60s for brothers & sisters - some say Leport - some say Neport!! But it's the same family!!

Christine

I often do that with mistranscriptions and alternate spellings, Gywn.

For instance, on my offline family tree, one of the names I am researching is Edenborough - first comes in when 4xgreat grandad Castledine married Lucy Edenborough.

But Lucy's dad George - who is entered as Edenborough on my tree - has notes that he was christened "Edenborrow" and possibly married as "Edenbrow". His sisters were variously christened Edenburgh, Edinborrow and Edinborough so I note this down under the relevent sibling.

It comes in quite handy because you end up with a bank of alternate spellings to use in searches.

There are 4 main variants for my chief surname of interest.
I log them all into our family history program with the same spelling, so that I can sort and find.

I do however make a note on their file saying something like 'shown as ( whatever) in 1851 census.'
We have instances of parents and their children being found with different spellings at various times in their lives, so my method enables us to still keep them as a family unit.

Gwyn

Whatever the name is enter it as it appears.
I have a name on my tree which alters over time and if you spelt it the modern way all through the tree, it would lose the significance.that older family members were important.

Hi
I have ancestors name Grainger but the problem is some births are spelt Granger (round the early 1800's and 1700's. I'm sure I am not alone with different surname spellings, so how do you enter them in your tree?
Pat