A member recently reported that when she changed a LNAB from an incorect one to Inconnu, she got the following automatic message:
You entered "Inconnu" as the Last Name at Birth. If you don't know the person's last name at birth, please use "Unknown"
While Unknown is fine for English profiles, it isn't for profiles in other languages. In this instance, French, so the appropriate word is Inconnu. Which the program obviously recognized as meaning the same thing, else it could not have given this response.
I understand the Unknowns project works hard to reduce the number of such, but there are cases where there never will be another LNAB. The particular case I am using as an example was a girl whose baptism gives her a given name and goes on to state ''de père et mère inconnus'' ie of unknown father and mother. And nobody ever claimed her as their child, so trying to do anything else with it is a dead end frustration.
Can we dispense with this automatic mechanism that tries to impose the English word please? The French version is obviously understood.
Add: and correct the Help page on the subject, which is unreasonable.