is the profile name formatting correctly when wife's LNAB is the same as spouse's LNAB?

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In January, I discovered one of my 3rd great-grandmother's LNAB was the same as her husband's LNAB, so that her LNAB and CLN were the same.  So today when I looked at her profile and her profile name was:
Rebecca Crews (1829 - bef. 1865)
which made me think that I didn't have her LNAB because I would have expected it to be:
Rebecca (Crews) Crews (1829 - bef. 1865)

So I experimented around and the closest I could come to getting it to format that way was to put an apostrophe at the end of her CLN giving
Rebecca (Crews) Crews' (1829 - bef. 1865)

So is this a bug or just the preferred way to format the name is such a case as this?  I could not find documentation or G2G question on this subject.  Thx

WikiTree profile: Rebecca Crews
in WikiTree Tech by Mike Eggleston G2G6 (7.6k points)

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I'm pretty sure that the last name at birth is only shown in parentheses like that if it is different from the current last name.  (Not a bug.)
by Ian Beacall G2G6 Pilot (311k points)
selected by Kevin Conroy

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