> No, it should appear as Okerson, John 2nd. What happened net of the import, is that the suffix was brought in as the Surname, NOT as the Suffix! GRRRRR

I have a few JR & SR in my database and that also happened to me. I am not sure if using the slashes in FTM 16 would have resolved the issue or not as I thought I had used them.... Once you get it cleaned up, though, you shouldn't have any further problems. Linda in Costa Rica Monroe County, New York Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys Monroe County, New York History http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys -----Original Message----- From: John Okerson Sent: Monday, 31 October, 2011 2:34 PM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] 2012 handling of names and Titles > No, it should appear as Okerson, John 2nd. What happened net of the import, is that the suffix was brought in as the Surname, NOT as the Suffix! GRRRRR

> Once you get it cleaned up, though, you shouldn't have any further > problems. It is still a question of IF I shall use 2012 as a primary genealogy program in the future. I have been busy editing my 16 file using the Place Name Authority within 2012. By a variety of methods, I have whittled my list of 'places' from about 30,000 when I started to only 21,5XX at this point. I still have quite a ways to go before I am willing to toss in the towel and resolve the remaining mass of places - might have said MESS of places, but thought better of it. The PNA in 2012 seems quite useful, though imperfect. It has allowed me to find a multitude of errors I made, and many that others passed along to me. Sadly, I had chosen the same / as a divider between county names, when a city appears in multiple counties. I have worked on replacing that / with \ instead and am happy with the results although the PNA disavows the name that way.