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From: "tanari" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Two word last names
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:13:00 -0800
References: <NDBBJJMPJKPBEPNBFPGACEHNLOAA.John@JohnCardinal.com>


> The good news is, it's very unlikely that you will have to hand edit anything.
> In order to determine how to fix it, however, we need to know exactly what is
> going on. Despite the fact that you have probably answered some of these
> questions elsewhere in the thread, please answer them all here so everyone who
> reads your reply will be up to date:
>
> 1) Did you transfer from FTM to TMG using GEDCOM or GenBridge?
Genbridge
>
> 2) Were the "Van Hoosan" surnames in the surname field of FTM? Yes they were in the surname field.
>
> 3) How are the names stored in TMG, specifically, where is "Van" and where is
> "Hoosan"? The answer to those two questions should be one of the name subfields
> like "PreSurname field" or "Surname field". The "Van" could be in the Given name
> subfield if it was taken for a middle name somehow.
ABRAHAM VAN HOESEN VAN in the Given Name field and HOOSAN in the surname field.


> 4) When you asked how to get the names to appear properly in the index, were you
> referring to an index produced by a report, or were you referring to the
> Picklist, or to the Project Explorer?
Picklist but maybe elsewhere just noticed it there.

Thanks for the help,
Tiffany
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