GEDCOM and Non-standard Name Forms
Recently someone mentioned a new feature to put multiple names in the Vitals block. I wondered what they were talking about. Then I found an example. And...
- It is not new. This example K41M-YM2 dates from 2017.
- It is due to a GECOM import, maybe.
- There is an "x" button to delete the second name but it does nothing.
- Edits to the name appear to succeed but do not save. I get the same result on both web interface and mobile app.
So this "feature" seems to be a bug.
Use the Edit button to open the Name and...
Mods, please escalate to the engineering teams.
Answers
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The discussion mentioning multiple names in the Vitals block is here:
https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/97165/name-field-under-vital-multiple-names
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I can achieve that display by choosing a language setting with a different writing system, such as Russian or Japanese. If I enter an alternate name form in the "extra" fields and save, there will be two names in the Vitals box:
Similarly to what you've described, if I then go and change the name's language back to a Roman-alphabet language, the alternate appears below a line labeled "Non-Standard Name Forms", and the change does not save.
(Note that the two screenshots are from separate attempts: the top one used Japanese, while the bottom one used Russian.)
So as a workaround for wanting to keep the two names but needing to change something in them, you could choose, say, Russian for the name's language, enter the extra name in the Cyrillic fields, and save.
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi can you delete the second name?
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Yes, the second name can be deleted by clicking the X at the right. If I do that, then my change of language can be saved.
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When I began this Discussion, clicking the X did not delete the additional name. Now it does, and I am able to clean up that mess.
In the meantime I found several other profiles in that region of the tree with additional spurious names. Some of the names were "Living". All were "GEDCOM data". Hm...
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This isn't a bug. It is to support older/other systems that FamilySearch interacted/interacts with. The names could be different names depending on how the data was formatted in the other system.
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@Jordi Kloosterboer the bug was that the extra names edit tool didn't work. That's been fixed.
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Oh I see.
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