Family Tree provides many different language templates for names. The language templates help you enter an ancestor's name in the correct order for the language and in the correct scripts (or character sets) for the language.
Language Template
| How to Enter the Name
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Albanian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Indonesian
Italian
Italian
Malagasy
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Samoan
Slovak
Spanish
Swahili
Other | Enter the title, first names, last names, and suffix in separate fields. |
Hungarian
Romanian
Tongan | - Enter the title, first names, last names, and suffix in separate fields.
- The last name field comes before the first name field.
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Chinese
| - Enter the first and last names in separate fields.
- Enter the names in hanzi or roman characters.
- The system transliterates the native script and shows the romanized characters in the field below.
- If you change the roman (the transliteration result), your changes are preserved.
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| Greek | - Enter the title, first names, last names, and suffix in separate fields.
- Enter the names in the Greek and roman characters.
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| Japanese | - Enter the first and last names in separate fields.
- Enter the names in kanji or kana characters.
- The system transliterates the native script and shows the romanized characters in the field below.
- If you change the romanized characters (the transliteration result), your changes are preserved.
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| Korean | - Enter the first and last names in separate fields.
- Enter the names in hangul or hanja characters.
- The system transliterates the native script and shows the romanized characters in the field below.
- If you change the roman (the transliteration result), your changes are preserved.
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Bulgarian
Russian
Ukrainian | - Enter the first and patronymic names.
- Enter the last name in the second field.
- Enter the names in Cyrillic and the roman characters.
- The system transliterates the native script and shows the romanized characters in the field below.
- If you change the romanized characters (the transliteration result), your changes are preserved.
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| Mongolian | - Names entered in this template are identified as Mongolian, so they can be searched and displayed correctly.
- Enter the first and last names in separate fields.
- Enter the names in Cyrillic or roman characters.
- The system transliterates the native script and shows the romanized characters in the field below.
- If you change the romanized characters (the transliteration result), your changes are preserved.
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| Khmer | - Enter the first and last names in separate fields.
- Enter the names in Khmer characters.
- The system transliterates the native script and shows the romanized characters in the field below.
- If you change the roman (the transliteration results), your changes are preserved.
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| Vietnamese | - Enter the first and last names in separate fields.
- Enter the names in Vietnamese characters.
- The system transliterates the native script and shows the romanized characters in the field below.
- If you change the roman (the transliteration result), your changes are preserved.
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| Thai | - Enter the first and last names in separate fields.
- Enter the names in Thai characters.
- The system transliterates the native script and shows the romanized characters in the field below.
- If you change the roman (the transliteration result), your changes are preserved.
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