From: Steve H. <dig...@da...> - 2006-10-31 16:37:17
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From: "Gerald Britton", Tue, October 31, 2006 7:25 am > > The proposed changes to the family view make it look like the > relationship view, albeit simplified. I'm actually not proposing any changes to existing views, this is a brand new one. > I really don't see the point. The point is clarification, the current Relationship view: o Doesn't show complete information about the parents o Has an individual at the top instead of parents (confuses navigation...clicking at the top does not go up in the tree) The Family Group is a common method of arranging information so that the researcher can verify all the facts of an individual and spouse, including those that might be have some commonality with their children... > Also it's not obvious to me how you would edit family related events > etc. Events should be related to individuals, not families. Strictly speaking, if an event is related to multiple individuals, they all need to be linked directly to it, not linked through an abstract collection of people. The reason is because a collection of individuals do not share a fact exactly or in the same way. A plague, a move, a fire, an immigration... it is *very* important to record each and every individual's direct relationship to a fact instead of blindly attaching it to a whole group. Almost always, as more information is researched, there will be exceptions so that a family fact would be inaccurate or flatly wrong for one of the connected parties. Now this is a distinction from *shared* events. A marriage or divorce would be an example of a special fact that two individuals share. But there are only a handful of these types of special events, even birth facts are typically not recorded for the mother unless the issue fails to live! So I'm saying that GRAMPS' family editor dialog and family-related facts should go away. Let events be recorded through the Edit Person dialog, and allow special events like marriages to be shared. And have a good Family View so that the researcher can compare these facts on one screen. -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ] |