Re: [Gramps-users] Dealing with the same name in your database

[Enno B. <enn...@gm...>]

Hi Rich,
> How do you deal with people with the same names from you ancestory? 
> Say, as you go further back, you find more and more John Smiths.
>
> How do you differentiate them?
>
> I thought about adding a year in parenthesis to the name to help.
>
Personally, I would not add anything to a name that is not really part 
of that name. I mean, when you have approximate birth years or so, you 
will see those in the person view anyway.

Reading behind the lines now: Do you consider adding years to names to 
avoid those persons showing up in a duplicate search? If that's the 
case, I understand. Maybe we need a non duplicates button like some 
other tools have now. It would prevent a pair of persons to show up as 
duplicates when you use the duplicates tool later.

regards,

Enno