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Inconsistency checker is wrong for Swedish patronymicon surname style

Bernt Göran Sandén

February 05, 2024 10:10

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Hi,

I would like to be able to configure the consistency checking regarding family names. In Sweden we use patronymicon style. Family surnames are not used until late 1800s. Before that we use patronymicon. Patronymicon means that surname is constructed from the first name of the father. So a father Sven has two children, one son called Anders and one daughter called Lisa. According to the patronymicon rule Anders will be called Svensson as surname (the son of Sven) and the daughter Lisa will be called Svensdotter (the daughter of Sven) and females keep their birth surname regardless they are married or not. 

So I get tons of inconsistencies in my tree saying "The children of Anders has different surnames". Yes they have and that is normal. So my request is to be able to configure that no inconsistency warning should be issued for surnames inconsistencies. It is quite annoying to walk through all incosistencies and ignore them

Thanks 

Bernt Sandén (Pro)

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  Geni Support Team February 06, 2024 20:23

  Hi Bernt, the Consistency Checker should take into account patronymics. Can you provide a link to a specific example that is giving you an inconsistency? 

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  Thomas Ocklund March 24, 2024 12:40

  But the "different surnames" checker does not take into account patronymics with name contractions, some common in Sweden is:

  • Olofs children can also be Olsson/Olsdotter
  • Eriks children can also be Ersson/Ersdotter
  • Jonas children can also be Jonsson/Jonsdotter

  Common spelling variations could also be taken into account, like:

  • Erik/Eric/Erich
  • Olof/Olov/Oluf
  • Jacob/Jakob
  • Christian/Kristian

   

   

   

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  Geni Support Team March 27, 2024 21:20

  Hi Thomas, can you please provide the link to a specific example?

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  Thomas Ocklund March 28, 2024 09:17

  In trees for these example profiles there would be a lot of inconsistency warnings, most or all are cleared by users setting them "ignore for all users".

  https://www.geni.com/people/Erik-Persson/6000000036174400974 https://www.geni.com/people/Olof-Ersson/6000000024581363775 https://www.geni.com/people/Erik-Olofsson/6000000186143826933