AZBob 0 Report post Posted June 18, 2011 In narrative reports, principal name is [P], or [P1]. After a marriage, how do I modify this to show the given name, birth name, then the new married name for females? id. est.: Mary JONES married Sam SMITH. After their marriage, I want the report to show her name as Mary Jones SMITH. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Terry Reigel 0 Report post Posted June 18, 2011 First you have to create a name tag with the name Mary Jones Smith. You can do this by adding Mary Jones as the given name to the standard Name-Mar tag, or create another name tag. (By default, the program adds just the married surname to the Name-Mar tag, and then only the given name is "inferred" from the primary Name tag. Once you have that name entered, you will have to select it at the top right of each event tag where you want it to be used. You have to be in Advanced data entry mode to see the name selector drop-down at the to right of the Tag Entry Screen. Remember that most of the time the [P] variable will produce the pronoun He or She instead of the name, except for the first sentence in each paragraph. So there is no need to change the name selection for tags that will not produce the name anyway. If you want to force the name to appear where He/She otherwise would be, you can use the [P+] variable instead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites