Question

getting rid of double name

Comments

You are the manger of this profile and you should be able to fix it up.

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You can change the first name, middle name, preferred name, and nickname as needed to achieve a logical display on the profile, and explain in the narrative (biography).

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Removing the name in the Middle Name field should give you the display name that you want.

Answer 1

Hi Denruth,

To remove the double name Marion, edit her profile and delete Marion from the “Proper First Name” field and the “Preferred Name” field.

When in edit mode on a profile, if you click on the little black circle with a question mark in it, it will pop up a help description on what to type in each field.

Comments

Except -- if she was known as Marion, that should stay as preferred name.

This will inevitably show as a doubled name, but usually the preferred name, when different from the first name, shows in parentheses (). If added as a nickname, it shows between inverted commas " ".

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Right - what happened was this mixed standards together, which is why it looks that way. From an American perspective, we utilize middle names, so you've properly placed "Marion" in the Middle Name field. However, that would mean that "Marion" should not show up in the First Name (aka Proper First Name) field at all.

But as Melanie pointed out, if she always went by Ruth Marion and people did not simply call her "Ruth" or "Marion", then the Preferred Name would still show up as "Ruth Marion" and there will be a "double name" in the end result. It can get more fun when she may have gone by "Ruth Marion", but as a nickname you indicate that some did call her "Ruth" as a Nickname, so when you start adding in those, the name field adds even more duplicates as it tries to show all the slight variants that were used.