Re: dilemma - a naturalist changes their name - how to link names in R6
Hi all,
here is a dilemma,
an individual naturalist who does quite a bit of recording in the area changes their surname. As far as I can tell there is no simple answer to this in Recorder6. Three options come to mind; I have to make a whole new entry for future records, which does not have a link to their former name (or does it - let me know if so), I make a new entry and then merge the old one in - but is the old name retained on the records pre name-change? or, thirdly, which I would NEVER do - change the surname on the existing entry - obviously wrong as that would not bew the name in the records pre name-change...
What has happened in other R6 databases - it must surely have happened before - marriage, divorce, etc, etc.
Louise Bacon
CPBRC