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At surname statistics I have a top-10 but

Ex. Pederson and Pedersdaughter (danish Pedersen and Pedersdatter) is the same. Can I do something about it?

Regards, Jamie Jaconelli

admin and owner of a user customized version of kiwitrees (contains 3 family trees)

Thats an interesting problem. I don’t have an immediate answer. I’ll give it more thought and get back to you as soon as I can.

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

What would you want to see done to improve it?

Would it be to include Jensdatter and Jensen as a single group called “Jensen”?

Another question – Do you see that statistic as a count of SURNAMES or a count of FAMILIES?

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

kiwi wrote:

Would it be to include Jensdatter and Jensen as a single group called “Jensen”?

If I assume you will answer ‘yes’ to that question, then the solution is to amend the name part of each “Jensdatter” person.

Instead of:
1 NAME Ane /Jensdatter/
2 GIVN Ane
2 SURN Jensdatter
you need:
1 NAME Ane /Jensdatter/
2 GIVN Ane
2 SURN Jensen

You can either do this by raw GEDCOM edit, or by using the name edit screen (click the icon to edit the “Name” field independently of the surname field). You can probably also do it by the batch update, but it will be complex I’m afraid.

That will do a number of things:

• Her main display name will remain as Ane Jensdatter
• Her surname on her individual page header will be Jensdatter (Jensen)
• The statistics chart will count her as a “Jensen”
• In Lists > Individuals she will appear as both Jensen and Jensdatter (same for general search results)

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

Yes is the answer to your question.

I have 6000 indis. So im not going to edit all those women 🙁 It would also give an extra edit everytime I add a woman. Because the name will allways take it from surname!

But I was of something like *count names if surname *.daughter concider as *.nothing

But got your idea. Thank you! 🙂

Regards, Jamie Jaconelli

admin and owner of a user customized version of kiwitrees (contains 3 family trees)

jacoline wrote:

But I was of something like *count names if surname *.daughter concider as *.nothing

Yes, that would be nice, but other countries have similar issues, but not necessarily the same “rules” so it would start to get very complicated.

It could also be argued that different spellings of the same name. I have people with name Osborne, Osbourne, Osborn, etc due to errors in old documents, changes over time and many other reasons. I have to record them in a similar fashion.

Nigel
My personal kiwitrees site is www.our-families.info

About the spelling I use the other choices when adding. Surname Osborne also known as Osbourn ect

I was not aware of the lastname. And Im bit sad that it can not be fixed in the code as ignore *.daughter – but ty for answer

Regards, Jamie Jaconelli

admin and owner of a user customized version of kiwitrees (contains 3 family trees)