The European Aristocracy Project has done *fantastic* work in merging profiles, setting standard LNABs, and removing the mythology that often follows these ancestors around from family tree to family tree. In order to help maintain the great work they do on the project, some of we other project leaders were thinking that we might need a new way to make the profiles easier to find.
Many of these ancestors are known by many different names, titles, birth place-based names, and aliases. That can make it hard to find them when we try to stick to certain standards in our naming guides, and only have so many name fields-we want to use what they used when they lived. This is not up for discussion right now.
What can we do to make them easier to find is what we are trying to tackle.
One idea I had was an index that is similar to a cookbook. If you search for chicken and vegetable casserole in a well-indexed cookbook, you end up being able to find it under chicken, casserole, and vegetables, plus possibly suppers or pot luck. If we could create a index-it would be huge, though, and that may be a draw back-that indexed the aristocracy by their title, every known alias, their house name, their place of birth or where they ruled, we may be able to cut down on new duplicates and make merging easier. We would have to make sure all those aliases are included in the biography somewhere, too, so when someone thought they had found who they were looking for, they could confirm it.
That is just one thought we had-this is more of a thread to think out loud. What ideas do you have? Categories? Free-Space Profiles with links?
Even more experienced users often have trouble finding some of these profiles because there are so many names associated with them.
