Home› Welcome to the FamilySearch Community!› Suggest an Idea

Please show Chinese names with both the Chinese and Roman Characters

WilsonMarly
WilsonMarly ✭
May 10 in Suggest an Idea

I am working on my Chinese family line and this is a big concern I have. We have the spelling of the names with both Chinese and Roman Characters. In each individual's file the names are perfect and look great. Because both spellings are there it allows for the names to be easily searchable in both spellings. This is perfect.

The problem we are running into is sharing the names with the temples as the initial page/record/display of the individual is their name in Chinese characters. The temples would not know that if they opened these individuals pages that they would see the Roman characters. Consequently, these individuals records when sharing with the temple seem to be limited to the Taiwan and Hong Kong temples instead of being sent throughout. Many are waiting over 10+ years because only two temples can share in their names. But in reality, all can work on them as we have both spellings on their records. We have tried to switch and put the roman letters first and Chinese characters under, but something is wrong with the display and the names have no spaces between them (Roman characters) if we put the Roman characters as the lead spelling. Is there a way to fix this? We would really love this fixed so both spellings can be seen initially or we can put the Roman characters first and the spacing is correct. Our family is working on the temple work as well, but we have thousands of names and want to help them be completed. Thank you.

1
1
Up Down
1 votes

Active · Last Updated May 10

Clear
No Groups Found

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 27.5K FamilySearch Help
  • 143 Get Involved
  • 2.9K General Questions
  • 473 FamilySearch Center
  • 517 FamilySearch Account
  • 5.1K Family Tree
  • 3.9K Search
  • 5.1K Indexing
  • 725 Memories
  • 375 Other Languages
  • 36 Community News
  • 7.2K Suggest an Idea
  • Groups