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Hello.  Can anyone please tell me if German tradition is to adopt a husband's family name upon marriage, as it is (though not so uniform today) in the English-speaking world?  Particularly, in the 18th and 19th centuries?  Thanks in advance.

Excellent - thanks.

Thanks for that.  I was interested whether the individual information for the censuses was available.  You can see the personal cards used for the 1911 census at:  http://www.rootschat.com/links/0srv/ ** (page 11).  Their destruction, until recently, makes sense why I couldn't find anything (I was thinking the 1901 and 1911 censuses might have been now available under a 100 years rule).  Thanks re the electoral roll link - that was another line of enquiry.  Does anyone know about pre-Commonwealth censuses in SA?  For example, there was an Australia-wide census in 1881.  Were the individual records for these similarly destroyed?

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Many thanks for the responses so far.  I've found one person who married two members of my family, he married like a cousin after both their first spouses had died.  No children thankfully, to reduce the complexity!  I myself have a step-sister to represent.  I like the reference to same sex relationships above - none here yet, but interesting question for the genealogists of the near future!

Hi all.  I'm scouting around for genealogy software - I've browsed the great Wikipedia comparison.  I like the look of the outputs (charts) in Family Historian and Legacy, to a lesser extent FTB, FTM, Genbox and GenoPro.  However, before beginning to download and type madly, does anyone have any feedback on how these (or other) programs handle and depict less-than-usual relationships like second unions (marriages) with offspring, step relationships etc?  Thanks.