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Name Review (not Indexing) - Name is labelled incorrectly as Given Name or Surname

Nestor Martinez1
Nestor Martinez1 ✭
April 20 edited April 20 in Get Involved

When a name is incorrectly labelled as a Given Name but it is really a Surname (or vice-versa), how do we change the label to show the correct classification of the name?

(These are western names, not from another culture where given names, last names, family names, etc. follow a different tradition.)

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  • Lisa5028
    Lisa5028 ✭
    June 27 edited June 27

    I have the same question as above. I have searched everywhere and read the FAQ help information and watched the YouTube video but nothing addresses the issue. Here is an example of the name box with the heading "Given Name" when it is actually a surname. The entire surname is actually Fernandez Merayo and Fernandez also comes up as "Given Name".

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    Thank you for any feedback :)

    Lisa

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