Regarding name suffixes and prefixes in the person properties

[Vericia]

In the person notes, when we enter, for example.

name: Aegon Targaryen,

or

name: Hans von Duisburg

should we use only names themselves or with all prefixes and suffixes (Aegon V Targaryen, Hans von Duisburg, Dr. John Smith, Dame Olivia X. )?

The wiki is not very clear regarding it.

[banisterious]

Oh, good question. The short version is: name is your display name, so put it in whatever form you want to see. name is what shows on the family-chart cards and in links between notes, and it defaults to the note's title. It's treated as free text, nothing requires a bare "First Last". So Aegon V Targaryen, Hans von Duisburg, and Dr. John Smith are all fine as-is.

If you also care about genealogical precision or clean GEDCOM export, there are separate optional properties for the structured pieces. These are what the plugin reads/writes when importing or exporting GEDCOM (importing a tree fills them in automatically):

• name_prefix - titles like Dr., Rev., Dame
• name_suffix - generational suffixes like Jr., III, V
• surname_prefix - particles like von, de la
• nickname, maiden_name, alt_name

They're optional and they don't change what's displayed, they just keep the data structured. So a practical setup:

name: Dr. John Smith Jr.
name_prefix: Dr.
name_suffix: Jr.

One heads-up: right now the prefix/suffix fields aren't in the Add/Edit Person form; you'd add them directly in the note's properties (or they arrive via import). I'll get the wiki updated to spell this out, since it isn't clear today, and just filed #709.

[banisterious]

Quick follow-up on this. In the next release the Add / Edit Person modal now has Name prefix, Name suffix, and Surname prefix fields, so you can fill in those structured name parts straight from the form rather than editing the note's properties by hand.

[Vericia]

Thanks a lot!