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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] All at once Family NAME Change?
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 23:19:44 -0600
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Teresa wrote:

>> 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.

>Instead of changing all the names, why not just change the sort name. Then
>all your names that are similar will sort in the same place, but will still
>keep their original spellings.

It's a good idea. But I couldn't do that until now. With version four we had to have another solution for sorting variant spellings, and now my Spanish dataset has migrated permanently to TMG5. I still have hundreds of names done the old way -- in a few cases with variant spelling name-tags added for sorting purposes so I could find them under BOTH variants of a common name like Lara / de Lara. Eventually I'll get around to deleting many of these and going to the new system.

I'm still using v4 for two datasets because I need some of v4's features, and it's speed, for stuff I'm doing. For my Spanish dataset I'm using v5 because some of ITS features are just the ticket for stuff I'm doing with that dataset. Eventually I'll move all to v5, but not sure when.

Stuart Armstrong
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