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Originally Posted by cbbl
OK, I'm stumped. I'd like to get a download of the most common U.S. surnames for certain decades so I can create a names file and get historically accurate names for my new league (which begins in 1947). The same goes for first names.
I've looked at Questdogs files, but I see two issues -- one, it only deals with first names, and two, it requires replacement of OOTP's nations.txt file with 228 nations with Questdogs' nations.txt file with only 31 nations.
The task is easy; finding the data isn't -- especially the last names. The U.S. Census website has databases for names from the 1990 census, but that's it.
How have the historical gamers not using actual players dealt with this? If it's 1947, guys like Hector Lopez and Yoshi Kazura shouldn't be on the roster, even if their nationality is American.
Anyone have an idea?
ALSO -- I'm a little confused as to what I need to do with name sets (or even how to modify them). Can someone assist, please?
Thanks!!
cbbl
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You can paste the wanted ethnic sets into a Questdog name set or vice versa....
Last names don't change so much with fashion; the common Anglo names now were common Anglo names a hundred years ago. (Excepting the ridiculous hyphenated craze of now. How selfish of these parents to put hyphens on their kids. What happens in 20 years when two hyphens want to get married and the woman wants her kids to have her name, too? Then we get 2 hyphens creating three....Smith-Wilson-Barret-Jones....20 years later we get 6 hyphens making 7!!!....dumb as dumb can be...)
The only way to keep unwanted ethnic names from your league is to edit the nations.txt file to remove the ethnic percentages from the United States.