person uses different names during life time?

Question

Tiffner-1

I have a family with head of household and six children, later a boarder shows  up. Then the boarder becomes a step=father. Then the children begin to use his last name. Head of household and boarder marry. By DNA on one of the children proves not to be boarders child. What last name to I use in wikiTree? The children use different names during lifetime. Do I use / in the combined names?

Answer 1

The children's Last Name at Birth should be whatever name they had at birth.

If a child adopted their stepfather's last name and used it for the rest of their life, put that name in the Current Last Name field.

The Current Last Name should be the one they died with, or the one they have now if they are still living. If they used the stepfather's name temporarily but used a different last name later (such as a woman using her husband's last name), the stepfather's last name goes in the Other Last Names field. If a person used multiple "Other Last Names" (such as a woman who married more than once), they all go in the Other Last Names field, separated by commas.

And you should explain it all in the text of the biography.