Universally the preference is to enter each and every person with their
birth name - a name that is documented in a primary source, birth
certificate. The logic here is that the individual belongs to a birth
family which you will, at some time be interested in researching. In
some societies a woman continues to use that name after marriage.
Maybe, if you're really "lucky", you'll find that two people with the
same family name married - that's the only time the family names of
spouses will be the same.
After months of discussion in alt.genealogy newsgroup the consensus for
unknown names became [--?--] The -- is an em dash if you can make
that. There are actually family names = unk and unknown and ... !
--
Dave Rowell - KI4JVU - A computer without Windows
is like chocolate cake without mustard!
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