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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] All at once Family NAME Change?
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:59:52 -0600
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On 10/1/02, at 15:30, bob gillis wrote:

>Mike Fox wrote:
>>
>> I would like to change the spelling of the family name for a large
>> number of individuals. Could anyone tell me where to find the
>> instructions how to change all at once rather than one by one?

>BUT!, why do you want to do it? In TMG you should not have to go to a
>standardized surname. You can find anyone fairly easily even if you do
>not know the exact spelling.

Not sure I follow you there, Bob. The idea of standardized name spellings helps a LOT in certain circumstances, particularly where you've got a lot of one name. If I'm looking for William Bean among a list of 500 Beans including 29 William's and I happen to enter one them as William Been, I'll probably never notice him in the picklist. Yeah, there are other ways to find people besides the picklist, but often there's a need to see them all together in one sorted list. The problem becomes even worse with names like Baldez / Valadez, Ximenez / Jimenez, Samarripa / Zamarripa, Lara / de Lara. Even finding Jose Juan Rodrigues can be a pain when there are 55 Jose something Rodrigues's and half of them are spelled Rodriguez so they sort 15 pages away. Without standardized names you have to make elaborate filters to find people, and that's a pain.

Stuart Armstrong
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