English Lords and Ladies
Ed Greenberg <[email protected]>
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Greetings. My first post. I've been using Gramps for many years, both for my own researches and for other more trivial pursuits. One of the things I like to do is construct genealogies for long involved fiction series' that have lots of interrelated people. This saves the question of "who is she" when a character is mentioned long after having first been introduced. My current reading has led me to these questions. If an English lord is recorded, one should record the title as "Lord". Many English lords carry personal surnames separate from their titled lordship. For instance, Lord Whatever might be born as John Smith, not John Whatever. How would one record the person and their rank? An additional question concerns a titled lady. If a female commoner marries a lord, she becomes Lady Whatever. If the female is the daughter of another peer, let's say, Lord Whoever, She is known as "Lady Firstname Whatever." At least as far as I can determine on the Internet, from the US side of the pond. So how are the two cases above recorded? Best, Ed Greenberg Glens Falls, NY -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org