Can you please stop putting my last name twice in both "Last Name" and "Surname" data fields? Burke should be in my "Surname" because I grew up with "Burke" as a child. Boys do not need to be jealous that girls have two names. Historically, men do not change their last names, so the genealogy should be simple. Women, on the other hand, their family they grew up with get lost because they change their name to their husband's name. Thus, women do have two branches protruding out (unlike men).
To have two data fields, "last name" and "surname" help indicate that this is a female. It also helps indicate how many times she marries, by putting older last (married) names in the "Also Known As" data field.
Face the fact, the embarrassing fact, that humans were inbreeding. Some women will have same last names and surnames because they married their "cousin" of the same last name.
If I did this to my profile, had "Burke" in both last name and surname data fields, it will look like I inbred myself. Even though, technically, I was adopted, with another unknown family lineage. I do not want to be in the category of "same name" family branches. When I come across an inbred family, it will be easier to spot, when I see the two names as the same.
In my genealogical journey, I discovered my adoptive father had a mother (surname Fone) that was actually connected to the man I procreated a child with (a Bradley). Not quite sure the straight lineage, because it often shifts from Gallaher (Robert Bradley's father's mother's side) and Newberry (Robert Bradley's mother's side).
So, my child's "grandfather" (the my adoptive father) actually should have genetic similarities due to this connection. Which is strange, frightful and interesting as an unknown adoptee.
Yes, adoptees do have more than the normal two branches. They have an unknown additional two lost in secret due to their adoption. They have a biological and a non-biological. I am not going to indicate a generic name the adoption paper wrote. Nonetheless, that would be on my "other" family tree once I ever find out that tree. This adoptive last name is "Burke" and it should be under "surname".
Thanks!