The look of your family tree

[jaybelnz]

I always use Maiden names when I know them, otherwise, as with my 2 Irish 4x great grandparents, one is listed as Sarah Annie Unknown - and the other just Unknown, as I don't know her Christian name/s either.

[rosie99]

I have left Doreen with her maiden name rather than changing it to Bunch (where as Find My Past automatically changes it to Bunch)

FindMyPast has not changed womens maiden names to their married names on my tree 

[StevieSteve]

Pure speculation - I wonder if ftp overwrote an initial entry when adding a census or death

[Karen Lorraine]

Thank you everyone!
With find my past - if you click on the hints for a person and then agree that they hint they have offered is correct you then click 'yes, next step' - then 'update' it automatically changed the maiden name to the husbands surname.  I am very new to this and it took me a while to realise you can update manually just those bits you wanted updating but just wondered what other did and thought about it
I just didn't want to lose the maiden names off of all my female relatives

[groom]

I always use maiden names, otherwise it looks very odd e.g. Jane Smith daughter of John Brown! Surely you need a maiden name to be able to follow the family backwards?

[DonnaA23]

I always add the maiden names. ......And at Ancestry, most information I have tended to add manually, as opposed to automatically adding, because the leaf information is not always accurate by way of spelling mistakes, wrong dates and place names.

[AntonyMMM]

The convention would generally be to use the person's name at birth (not the maiden name).

[jaybelnz]

  Surely a women's name at birth is their maiden name?

[groom]

Surely a women's name at birth is their maiden name?

That's what I always thought, although I see one definition is it is the name that she is known by before her marriage. In most cases that would be the same as her name at birth.