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Note: An office can be elected or appointed. A title cannot be awarded or inherited. Now (as of March 2025) that we have personalized name views, how do we best handle profile titles and offices? Do we use display name, name prefix, name suffix, and / or additional labels? Geni kicks out inconsistency reports for any text in the suffix field except Sr./ Jr. and Roman numerals. Use labels (a...
SmartCopy Best Practices It is possible to step-by-step import a full branch or tree from some other site, for example Ancestry, Myheritage or WikiTree, to Geni using the semi-automatic tool SmartCopy (SC). See that page for installation instructions. This page describes how to copy a full tree, and suggests some do's and don'ts. A profile to start out from The easiest approach to copying a t...
Conventions for name entry in the Geni "World Family Tree" (WFT) The naming conventions outlined in this project conform to GENi naming conventions . The intention is to minimize data conflicts and optimise consistency in the GENi matching /merging technology & ensure that we do not find ourselves with names in the wrong fields when the GENi software engineers release program enhancements. T...
Names A person’s birth surname should be entered in the “Birth Name” field & surname changes that occurred after the birth surname, should be entered in the “Last Name / Surname” field (Note: historically in Croatia the majority of women changed their surname when they married) Do not fill in the “Display Name” field Name Preference Settings can be used to change how names are displayed to your...