How to deal with "birth name" and "married Name" of a person

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This can be complex.

The setting of Name type (Birth/Married) and surname origins (Patrilineal/Taken) via automation using SuperTool was one of the first SuperTool Tutorials posted.

Tree vivisection experiments with the Isotammi SuperTool

This is a start of a “How do I…?” article for the wiki on Approaching Automated Data Harmonization. Manually cleaning data to make it consistent and fill in omissions is purely a misery. There are excellent tools to clean messy data outside of Gramps. You could use OpenRefine or manipulate CSV data in a spreadsheet like Excel. That means taking the data out of the Tree structure of Gramps, losing the benefit of Gramps understanding how the data element interrelate, and risking data loss during …