AIO64-5.1.5-1 Windows 10. Hi! I have a question about name formats displaying (everywhere). An example: I have a person, say: First name: Petro Middle name: Antonov Last name: Andra. And also I found some documents where he is Nikolaev instead of Antonov. And let’s add also Chish instead of A…

There are quite a lot of options for achieving this: In Display preferences, you can create custom display formats for Names. And you can switch between using those various formats. In the Names tab of the Edit Person dialogs, you can create multiple alternate forms for a person. And, although “…

You can also give the person two different names, like this: [image]

@DaveSch yeah, looks like you did understand what I need. It will work as shown on your screen. But I’ve separated all my first, middle, last names between different attributes. I think it is more correct. I could also write full person name as string inside the Name field and it will also work. But…

Want to ask you maybe I can get the same result (as you shown above in brackets) but with separate first, middle, last names. I’ve shown it on the screenshot. Thanks. [2022-12-07_8-03-45]

@emyoulation Thanks for the example! But I don’t understand how use suffixes in my case. I think suffixes - there are something another. Usually our people didn’t have suffixes, except maybe emperors e.t.c. But suffix is not for middle/last name, I think. Or maybe I’ve not understand your idea.

So, a small conclusion for now… @DaveSch has shown example with case which will work as I need Names formatting (alias supporting) - #4 by DaveSch But I would like to reach the same result with separate first, middle, last names because this looks more flexible. Also I already have a lot of people…

The use of Suffix was just an example of how you can use different keywords to adjust the Name Display Format to do something you may not have even suspected was possible. An example of “thinking outside the box”. You would use a different combination of keywords for your needs. It will take some …

Yes, I tried to change the formatting formula. As you can see my formula is not default already. But it is still not the same what I need. As I understand, it is impossible to get such result which I expect. If possible, could you write such formula pls? Thanks a lot!

Although I am confident that the sheer number of name fields makes a workable solution possible, I find the naming conventions you have described to be… baffling. A system cannot be set up without understanding the rules. So I’m not the right person to create this format.

I don’t think you achieve what you’re looking for in a single name record. A “name” is highly culture-related and its definition varies across space and time. A “name” in Gramps is based on several “components”: inherited: will be stored in surname (may be family name, patrilineal, patronymic, m…

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Names formatting (alias supporting)

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