Why are a majority of this site's users listed with duplicate user names, e.g., "XYZ1234 XYZ1234" ?

Evergreen

Why are a majority of this site's users listed with duplicate user names, e.g., "XYZ1234 XYZ1234" ?

JeffWiseman

The software is just weird. For some odd reason it wants a "first" name and a "last" name separated by a space. The concept of a single identifier doesn't exist here. So to be happy, it inserts a space after the name and then REPEATS the name again.

 

If in your example, Mr. "XYZ1234" were to enter a space in his ID to show as "XYZ 1234", the the repeated value would disappear.

 

There might be a good reason for this, but I really doubt it as the FamilyTree site, the GetSatisfaction forum for FamilySearch site, and even the church sites which all share this value, do not treat it this way.