Changing a surname to unknown

Question

The surname of my ancestor Rebecca Rebe should be unknown.
Somewhere along the line her surname was identified as Rebe, but I have never found any records for her under that name, nor anything else with that surname.  I have found a deed executed by her husband, Peter Drake, and her, and she signed with a mark, "R E B E."  I believe that was only her mark, the first 4 letters of her name, and NOT her surname.

Can I just change her surname to Unknown, and explain the reason for the change, or do I need to follow some procedure?

Thanks very much,

Sue Runnells Berryhill

Answer 1

You are the profile manager so yes you can edit the LNAB. Adding your explanation, as you wrote it in this post, explains it well

Comments

Thank you.  I thought that should be the way, but wanted to be sure there wasn't something else I needed to do, that hadn't occurred to me.

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I just noticed that there is a duplicate profile for her that has Unknown for LNAB so no need to create another profile by changing the last name, just merge the two.