Name 'meaning' explanation for 'Fitz' needs to be expanded
The life summary of one of my ancestors, whose last name was Fitz, has an incomplete "Name Meaning" description. In fact, this branch of the family was not Anglo-Norman, but German. If you trace the surname back through the family tree, you find it not in Shropshire or anywhere else in England, but in Hesse. The Anglo-Norman attribution was current in my side of the family when I was growing up; it was wrong.
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I'm guessing that you're talking about a "Discovery" page. (Your screenshots are currently still hourglasses.)
My advice is to ignore Discovery pages: they consist of random bits of profile info, scattered across the page, and mixed with various bits of fluff and nonsense. The "name meaning" section is a case in point; it consists of whatever a particular book on American surnames had to say about a name, and illustrates time and time again that you can't do onomastics without paying attention to geography. Just about every family name in existence has multiple possible origins, so a generalist name dictionary will always be wrong more often than it is right.
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@SarahDaniel3 - Would you please try to edit your post and re-upload your images? Like Julia, all I see are hourglasses.
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Piper
[ Attention: @Mark McLemore ]
FYI
That is why, some of us, have been saying, for some time, that "Image Moderation" in this "Community.FamilySearch" Forum, is 'Out of Control'.
ie.
NOT only "Rejecting" MANY "Images", that should NOT be "Rejected" ...
But, also, LEAVING many "Images" in the the ABOVE state ... in 'no mans land'/'Limbo' ... I have quite a number
As such ...
The parameters, for the "Image Moderation", in this "Community.FamilySearch" Forum, NEED addressing/fixing ASAP ...
Brett
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@Brett . - This is being looked into. I asked to see if this helps in a stop-gap kind of way.
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Editing / reloading the images always works for me. But, yes, this does need to be looked at, as the images should be sticking, soon after posting, without the need to go and reinsert.
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