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MyopicVicar (short-sighted clergyman!) is an open-source genealogy record database and search engine. It powers the FreeREG database of parish registers, the FreeCEN database of census records, the next version of FreeBMD database of Civil Registration indexes and other Genealogical applications.
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Decide solution for multi-name Surnames #2001

Open Sherlock21 opened 5 years ago

Sherlock21 commented 5 years ago

There appear to be no guidance or policy notes about the handling of multi name surnames. Whilst transcribing some Marriage records, I have a John Von Wiechel. Clearly. von is part of his surname. So I made a Test3 file to see what works. . I put both Von and Wiechel into SURNAME,with no hyphens. and used a WRY record for ease.

No need to include Place and Year range in your test search! Did a set of searches, with the following result:-

Just VON fails to return anything WIECHEL finds the record OK

VON WIECHEL also finds the record.

SO I am a bit baffled as to the logic! What are the rules please?

Also: if the original contains a hyphen it is impossible in most handwritings, to determine if there is, or is not any spaces with the hyphen. So do we standardise? or do you make the search code work with both options?

Several issues here: a) decide what the solution is (created as #2002) b) inform transcribers how to transcribe, based on solution =#1010 c) implement solution - this issue

E0 U3 S5 C8: P 16

richpomfret commented 5 years ago

Linked to 1010 - we already have this planned for 1.7 but need to explain it. @PatReynolds can you add a priority?