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From: Walt <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Two word last names
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:49:26 -0500
References: <20043415508.467358@TERRY2><001401c40234$ab37eae0$230110ac@TANARI>
In-Reply-To: <001401c40234$ab37eae0$230110ac@TANARI>


At 04:59 PM 4/03/2004, tanari wrote:
>In FTM the name appears as ABRAHAM VAN HOESEN(located in the first name
>field) VAN HOOSAN(located in the surname field). When I imported it to TMG
>it now appears as ABRAHAM VAN HOESEN VAN in the Given Name field and
>HOOSAN in the surname field. That is incorrect. The correct surname should
>be VAN HOOSAN and for some reason TMG is moving the VAN to the given name
>field.
>
>Tiffany


Tiffany

It sounds like you were using "Van Hoosan" as a "standard name" to try to
tie together "Van Hoesen" and other variants of the name.

If this is what you were doing, John Cardinal's TMG Utility 5 has a
function which will simply and easily generate a new (additional) Name-Std
tag which will allow you to find Abraham Van Hoesen (for instance) indexed
both under Van Hoesen and Van Hoosen. Alternately using the name sort
fields you could have Abraham Van Hoesen sort as though he were Abraham Van
Hoosen so that all variants of the name sort together.

If any of this is of interest, ask the list and we will tell you how to do
whatever it is that you want to do.

Walt


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