John McCain, U.S. Senator - Senator Title

Started by Private on Saturday, August 25, 2018
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Private
8/25/2018 at 6:10 PM

Why is he not Senator John Sidney McCain III, now that Geni has a title field? Why must we use the display name to convey this senatorship?

Private User
8/25/2018 at 6:18 PM

One reason would be that "Senator" alone wouldn't be too useful on a global tree. By using the display name field, we can specify the country.

Also, I think we determined that "Senator" is one of those forms of address that's a position, not a title, but I might be wrong about that. I know it came up in the (many) discussions about the field when it was first introduced.

Personally, I like the brevity and clarity.

8/25/2018 at 6:35 PM

His mother is still alive, so I have mastered her and locked her profile. This way when she finally dies, I will be contacted with a source and then will mark her as deceased.

Private User
8/25/2018 at 6:40 PM

Kevin Lawrence Hanit: I don't want to stay off-topic, but why lock it? Any user can update her living status rather than wait for you.

8/25/2018 at 8:32 PM

Private User,

I've done so because all of the MyHeritage matches show her as deceased.

8/25/2018 at 11:49 PM

The proper term of address is “the Honorable” but that’s not descriptive of position.

It is necessary to have US, not only to disambiguate from other countries, but from state senators.

Most titles are in the suffix position with the honorific in the prefix position, i.e.,

Sir John Smith, 1st Baron Smith

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