Is there an easy way of sorting names in lists of individuals such that name prefixes (de/la/von/el/de la/st/ etc. are ignored for the purposes of the sort but are still included in the display/ For example 'Du Maurier' would appear in the name starting with an M.
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* smart surname sort
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Not that I can think of, you could of course add an attribute for the 'sort name' and use an expression to add a column for sorting.
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The GEDCOM 5.5 standard defines a specific tag for Surname-Prefix with the following explanation:
Perhaps there should be a new Wish-List request for the default name sorting to ignore any part of the Surname value that is also specified as the Surname-Prefix value. This would have no impact on most names that have no prefix, and would allow the Surname to include the prefix, thus keeping all other processing the same.
FH (v4.0.2) allows you to input such a surname prefix but as far as I know, FH makes no automatic use of it, e.g. for sorting.Surname prefix or article used in a family name. Different surname articles are separated by a comma, for example in the name 'de la Cruz', this value would be 'de, la'.
Perhaps there should be a new Wish-List request for the default name sorting to ignore any part of the Surname value that is also specified as the Surname-Prefix value. This would have no impact on most names that have no prefix, and would allow the Surname to include the prefix, thus keeping all other processing the same.