It isn’t uncommon to find an ancestor’s surname written in a variety of ways. These variations are sometimes simple mistakes made by the clerk, but can vary quite a lot on occasions, and it is useful to document them. Christopher Marlowe, for example, had his baptism recorded as Marlow and on one document, signed his name as Marley. If we wanted to record this, we can use the surname variants box, on the “Naming” tab of the Current Person Other Detail dialog:
Multiple variants can be entered, separated by commas.