Nuke of Earl, nuke nuke, Nuke of Earl

RootsMagic
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If you use NameClean to standardize names anyone with the first name Earl will have that moved to prefix. This is very annoying, a see why it’s there but we need the ability to disable it when not wanted. I haven’t checked other royalty names such as King, Queen, Duke, or Lord, but if those are “cleaned” to prefix maybe have a “process royalty" or some such checkbox to enable or disable that.

I often get GEDCOMs from relatives where all the surnames are capitalized or have nicknames embedded and NameClean works great for cleaning those up, but the poor Earls get hosed and have to be cleaned manually.

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The suggestion will be to move it to prefix. The option is to uncheck it so it doesn’t.

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Maybe I wasn’t clear, it already moves Earl to prefix, I just want to turn that off. (nuke that feature)

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It’s already doable. Uncheck Misplaced prefixes

After all, that’s what it seems to specifically be checking for (from a list of “presumed” or “subjective” prefixes)

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Right, but that means Mrs, Miss, Mr, Dr, won’t be moved to prefix. King, Queen, Earl, Duke, Lord, etc, are totally different types of presumed prefixes and should be handled separately.

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Sounds like there would have to be a lot of checkboxes to provide such granularity. Everybody has a handful of exceptions they could put forward feature-requests for, not only within present categories, but other suggested categories they might have, too. Since it’s just an aid that is secondary to program function, I’d, personally, rather they stay on their features and fixes timeline than give me a checkbox because of my quirk (I don’t use periods for middle initials).

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You’re not a rebel! Full stops after initials is so last century :joy:

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:rofl: … and wouldn’t You know it …middle initials are pretty.dang.common, LOL

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