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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] All at once Family NAME Change?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:26:16 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200210012259520870.00AC61DB@mailhub.aros.net>


Stuart - If you are using 5.03, you can have all variant spellings but then
just set the Sort Name so they all sort together.

CheriC

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Armstrong [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [TMG] All at once Family NAME Change?




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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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