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Allow multiple first names

Michael Overholser

November 02, 2013 07:07

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Pretty straight forward, allow listing of multiple first names. For example my wife legally changed her first name shortly after we met

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  Bjørn P. Brox November 02, 2013 08:16

  I would not support multiple first names, but I would not support multiple last names either ;-)
  The reason is simple: That opens up for randomly combining them, which for a name never happens. If your wife got your last name at marriage and changed her first name after that again the combination of her new first name and previous last name would be wrong.

  What you have is always a full name, with an optional classification (like married name), in an optional  time-period, optional prefix and suffix, and something we can add sources for.

  The solution gives it self: Give us support for multiple complete name fields.

  Meanwhile we use the Also Known As field where we list up multiple full names.