Etiquette for adding people to a family tree online

[myluck!]

Then I will happily explain to them the stupidity of such a question in the first place!!

In fact my mother's maiden name was ni dhonnchadha as spelt by her,
her sister used the English Donohue,
her brother used the English version Donoghue,
their father used Donohoe and
his brother was O'Donohoe
Move into cousins and there are several more variations before going back into ancestors!!
As the 20th century progress and birth certs were required for identification each used what they were registered as, so I am told!

I think I may actually have done the bank a favour!

[ITBookworm]

If the bank were going to ask for proof of mothers maiden name there would be a large community of paranoid people (me being one  ) who could not prove any connection between the name used and the actual one. In fact I don't even use the same 'maiden name' for more than one of the web sites asking for it.

It is actually recommended that you DON'T use the true name to answer these sorts of questions on web sites or with banks - for all the reasons mentioned above  The idea is that "mother's maiden name" is simply used as a reminder of the word you use.

So my first school is anything but, my favourite car is the opposite, I was born in the town of my grandfathers birth - you get the idea  Obviously if you are being asked these questions by the tax man for example you probably need to give true answers but simply for web site security no.

[BordersCrafter]

Ok, now I'm suitably scared, I have made all my trees private!!!

It's so sad isn't it, that there are people out there who live to hack into people's personal information.