Alternative names and preferred names

[emyoulation]

I’ve run SuperTool scripts to tweak which is the Preferred Name. (Mostly for setting coverture Married names.) You could write a script with other criteria.

How to display two surnames (ie primary & married name)

A possible workaround: one could use the attached Supertool script to generate a new artificial name for people. The new name would contain both the birth name and the married name. This new name should probably be used only temporarily while e.g. preparing a report. [Gramps SuperTool script file] version=1 [title] combine_surnames [category] People [initial_statements] # Script that processes all people that have both a BIRTH surname and a MARRIED surname. Generates new surnames that contai…

@kku also has a NameFormat experimental addon for displaying any alternate surnames as a parenthetical.