Removing surnames of historical personages

If you had concerns you could have just contacted me. To find them in search you can add all the place surnames in the "also known as" field. All titles are being placed in the display name which is searchable.

Roderick, I understand your concern finding profiles you are used to undergoing such changes. I suggest you take part in related discussions...

http://www.geni.com/discussions/145996?msg=1009430

http://www.geni.com/discussions/145294

There's no point discussing this as this nonsense has aleady destroyed too much and nobody is going to reverse it. So it's a done deal and the converts to this new religion as re radicalised they will never listen to reason. Richenza has no surname anymore. her sister Ida has no surname anymore either and she has no names at all other than Ida and cannot be found in a search. Yet their sister is called Nn von Schwaben. There is no consistency, The database is being /has already been destroyed. Search yourself for Ida and you won't find her, only These:

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Ida Ita Von Lothringen

Birth: estimated between 939 and 999
Daughter of Possibly Hugh the Great Count of Paris
Wife of Count Radbot of Klettgau
Mother of Count Werner I "The Pious" Of Habsburg
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Ida von Lothringen; Abbess in Köln and Gandersheim

(c.1000 - c.1060)
Daughter of Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia and Mathilde of Germany - Countess Palatine of Lotharingia
Wife of Georg I, Herr von Hirscher
Mother of Maria von Hirscher; Adelheid von Hirscher; Hermann, Herr von Hirscher; Count Eberhard of Hirscher and 1 others
Sister of Liudolf, Count of Zutphen; Otto II, duke of Swabia; Richeza, queen of Poland; Herman II Ezzonen, Archbishop and 8 others
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Roderick, this problem has been debated so many times on Geni that I'll be surprised if you get much traction, except from people who want to re-hash all the old arguments.

There was a clear majority view that putting constructed names in the baisc name fields is a genealogical felony -- making up data. So, the general rule has been to put the earliest documented name in the basic fields. If there's no surname, so be it. Titles, along with unattested name forms used for clarity, go in an artificial "display name".

I think I might have preferred to put the constructed names in the basic fields, with the highest title in the suffix field, but that's not the way it turned out and I haven't had any problems coping with the current system.

i added

Ida Von Lothringen
Ita Von Lothringen
Ida von Schwaben
Ita von Schwaben
Ida of Swabia,
Ita of Swabia

to the also known as, you shouldnt have a problem searching now.

Justin, I hope that my ancient "Herr Of Swabia" cousins don't get lost in the shuffle . . .

;)

Jason Scott Wills i think "von" never was written with a capital V.

I know I just copy pasted what he wrote