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Including Names That Changed in Online Trees

Say I have a person legally born (for example) as Harry William Smith, but he was known by everyone since his teenage years as Buddy. His father passed away when he was young and his mother remarried ...
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How to handle name changes in records?

Is there a standard for how to write a person's name in genealogy records or family trees? What I'm getting at is what to do with the maiden names, or previous names. If Peter Svensson was born 1900, ...
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