Changing blank surnames to Unknown?

[AE Palmer]

Re: Change blank surnames to Unknown?

That is a very intriguing idea! I like it better than Unknown or Unnamed! I think I may give that a try. I can't think of any down side to this, can you?

Also, for all of us that would like Find and Replace to operate with blank fields, I did post that to the Wish List forum.

I use angle brackets for this purpose, otherwise I have too many square brackets to deal with. As always, YMMV!

[John Meara]

Re: Change blank surnames to Unknown?

I've used "Tim's method" and it worked for me. As I also have 9 trees in Ancestry.com, I like to use a surname option that works well in searches. So I hyphenate the wives' married names with Unknown until I discover their maiden name, e.g. Unknown-Meara.