Research notes 2023

Erica Howton C

5/2/2023 at 11:24 AM

Towards any updates that might be needed for this project and the project, Medieval Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobiliary_particle

Erica Howton C

5/2/2023 at 11:27 AM

Cross reference pages

https://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Naming_Conventions

https://www.geni.com/projects/Medieval-Europe/3198

https://www.geni.com/discussions/264213?msg=1631627&page=1

Erica Howton C

5/2/2023 at 11:33 AM

For English America, abbreviate religious or military title to avoid name confusion.

Rev., Dr., Gen., etc.

Private User

9/4/2023 at 6:07 PM

Also for Anglophone parts of the Americas: comma before "of."

YES: John Adams, of Braintree
NO: John Adams of Braintree

And for the U.S., Civil War profiles are:

YES: Pvt. Samuel Davis, CSA
NO: Pvt. (CSA), Samuel Davis
NO: Pvt. Samuel Davis, (CSA)
NO: Pvt. Samuel Davis (CSA)
NO: Pvt. Samuel Davis CSA

Both of those are the standard usage in genealogical journals and history texts.

Geni accepts "USA" and "CSA" in the suffix field.

Susanne Floyd PRO

9/5/2023 at 6:06 AM

Thanks for the "Naming Conventions" and the comma explanations, Erica Howton and Private User. Really helpful and I commented so I can find this again. :-)

Private User

12/8/2023 at 5:45 PM

Does anybody else wish General Rules 4 and 6 were combined with more clarification given for when one applies, when the other

4. Use the Display Name field for the modern version / translation / transliteration in your own language.

6. Do NOT fill in the Display Name field; by leaving it empty, each person's "name preferences" will be used automatically.

Erica Howton C

12/8/2023 at 6:00 PM

I was just thinking the same thing, Private User It seems contradictory, and it’s from before multiple language modules.

Treatment of display name and its conventions needs a more expanded discussion place in any event. So we should work on that also. But in the meantime, how should the current be rewritten?

FYI. The geni Wiki was retired in November 2023, so we’ve been working, as a first step, on incorporating the text from there into geni projects. That’s just been completed.

So now we can work on updates and covering what wasn’t before.

Here is the updated / current https://www.geni.com/projects/Geni-naming-conventions/1357, formerly called “Coalition for the Standardization of Geni Naming Conventions”.

It also functions as the index page to other Naming Conventions projects.

And I’ve just created https://www.geni.com/projects/Geni-naming-conventions-data-entry/4496394

Erica Howton C

12/8/2023 at 6:06 PM

I’m thinking item 4 should move to a second sentence of # 6 (which would become # 5).

How’s this:

5. Avoid filling in the display name. That way, it will default to combining the first, middle, birth and last name fields, and display according to each member’s ”name preferences.” However, it should be used for celebrity “best known as” names; transliterations from other languages; royalty; and other special cases.

Private User

12/8/2023 at 6:31 PM

My first reaction is wanting to say "However, it may be" rather than "However, it should be"
But you would know much better than I whether it really should be should.

Erica Howton C

12/8/2023 at 6:37 PM

“May be” is fine with me.

Erica Howton C

12/9/2023 at 12:31 PM

Updated “display name” text as discussed above.

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