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Regard display names too when suggesting merges.

עמרי שרת / Omri Sharet

March 15, 2012 17:48

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This is a main issue for me and for others who's main language is not written in Latin alphabet. There are two main groups in my family: Hebrew speakers and Non-Hebrew speakers. Since I want everyone to understand the family tree easily, the display names are biligual. However, using biligual first and last names works pretty bad, because what I get in my profile is עמרי Omri שרת Sharet, and it gets worse when there are second and maiden names - שרה Sara גיטל Gitel ליפשיץ Lypszic (ורשביאק) (Warszawiak). This looks very bad, but if I don't do that, I have to choose if I should use names in Hebrew or Latin - and the problem with that if I choose Hebrew, I won't get merge suggestions from Latin trees, and vice versa.

I ask you to solve this, and my suggestion is suggesting merges according to display names too. It should do the trick.

 

Thanks.

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  Bjørn P. Brox March 15, 2012 18:20

  Language dependent display names is one of the issues that have been discussed and more or less agreed on among the curators, - we are just waiting for an accept by Geni.

  Example: http://i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu41/bpbrox/OlavV.png

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  Bjørn P. Brox March 15, 2012 18:21

  Sorry, weong and an old example, - this is the details http://i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu41/bpbrox/DisplayName.png - in addition we need a source citation option as well.

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  עמרי שרת / Omri Sharet March 15, 2012 20:42

  That's great! Will all the names in all the languages I add be used for merging?

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  Bjørn P. Brox March 15, 2012 21:45

  As I said: We have just made this suggestion from none-Geni employees like the curators, - no implementation is planned or confirmed planned, but in my opinion Geni have to go in that direction if they want to be an international site.

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  עמרי שרת / Omri Sharet March 16, 2012 02:54

  Hopefully it will happen as you say, and soon enough. It will give immense help for people in my condition with their research, and I don't see any good reason why Geni shouldn't accept it.