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Can we please get some sort of language separation in full name review?

AnthonyHopkins5
AnthonyHopkins5 ✭✭
October 1 in Get Involved

I don't know any language other than English, and don't want to trade out helping with family search for learning an entire new language. We used to have language selection before, why was that abandoned? If we don't want to spend half our time nit picking our documents, or blindly indexing names that may turn out to be historical in nature rather than pertaining to the record currently being indexed, we need this feature back!!!!

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  • dancingintherain
    dancingintherain ✭✭✭
    October 3

    @AnthonyHopkins5

    Thank you for the suggestion. We understand how reviewing names from multiple languages in the same Full Name Review session can be challenging, especially when you are most familiar with a particular language or naming convention.

    At this time, Full Name Review does not provide a language-based filter or separation option. We appreciate feedback like yours because it helps the product teams understand where the review experience could be improved for volunteers.

    We encourage you to submit this idea through the FamilySearch feedback channels so it can be considered as future enhancements are evaluated. In the meantime, if you encounter names that are difficult to interpret because of language differences, please review them to the best of your ability and skip those you are not comfortable evaluating.

    Thank you for your efforts to improve the quality of FamilySearch records and for sharing your suggestion with the community.

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  • AnthonyHopkins5
    AnthonyHopkins5 ✭✭
    October 5 edited October 5

    Oh, thanks, I managed to find the feedback button, and will try using it more often when wanting to send messages specifically to the engineers rather than ask questions.

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