The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: nameauth
Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
Author's email: charles.schaum@att.net
Package version: 1.26
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
flexibility in body text and index.
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
This version fixes the sorting of names with suffixes in the
index. For Western names, the pattern is Surname, Forename, Suffix
(See Mulvany, etc.) while for mononyms the suffix simply follows the
name.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
or they may browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning.