Incorrect Indexing Needs Fixing!
look at these 2 screenshots and see the mistakes! Nemeth is the Surname! for all these family members — before you ask, I'm not related and no, I don't speak/write German or Hungarian. Please, will someone with more know-how FIX all this -Thank you
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adding to info on Surname Nemeth - I poked around Family Tree Search Results and found lots more Nemeth folks where FS has listed Nemeth shown as the Given Name —- wrong! however, its now past midnight so I give up and will follow this thread to see if I can learn from others' postings. 😎
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Hungarian records are usually recorded in Surname Give Name format. The automated process follows the English-language format of Given Name Surname.
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Everything looks correct. The surname is listed first in the indexed record, which is correct for Hungarian records. The names in Family Tree use the Hungarian language template, which also clearly identifies Nemeth as the Last Name (surname).
This may look unusual for people who are not used to names being displayed with the surname first, but it is quite normal and correct for names in languages such as Hungarian, Korean, Tongan, Chinese, etc.
The first step in the article How to enter names in Family Tree is to select the correct language template because ”The language template allows you to enter the name in the correct order." Situations like this show why that is important.
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Thank you @Áine.ní.Donnghaile and @Alan E. Brown I learned from both of you today about differing language templates. but a beginner/youth wouldn't know to reverse the order of names when using Find by Name — the placement of the entry boxes suggest that the often thousands of results would appear in the same order: Given Name followed by Surname - how would a casual user know what templates are but then again my 1950's elementary schooling (grades 1-6) in USA did not include computers, templates, AI or I phones so maybe I'm wrong/incorrect - I often am ☺️
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