Re: [Gramps-users] Organising places in GRAMPS

[<ann...@co...>]

Thank you to everyone for your responses so far. I've tried to summarise
on the wiki the wide range of approaches people are using.

http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Places_in_GRAMPS

Please feel free to have a look and include your approach if I've missed
it.

I would particularly like there to be a better indication of the pros
and cons of the different approaches. My conclusion is that no way is
"perfect" or even "right". Each has its good and bad points, and a
better coverage of these on the wiki would help people work out what
method would best suit them.

If you'd rather not edit the wiki page, feel free to email me your
comments and I'll try to incorporate them.

Cheers,
Anne.


ann...@co... wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm slowly reorganising my data to better suit GRAMPS, but can't decide
> what to do with my places. The wiki doesn't seem to have anything to say
> about this, although there is a relevant link to an empty page.
> 
> I thought that if a few of those people who have some experience with
> different ways of organising places could give me summaries of what they
> found did and didn't work, and why, I'll have a go at writing up some
> sort of recommendations to hopefully help new users (like me!) avoid
> doing it the wrong way the first time.
> 
> What I think of as 'basic places', such as "Paris, France", are pretty
> easy to deal with. It's places such as "St Luke's Church, 25 High St,
> Newtown, Yorkshire, England" that aren't obvious to me. What should the
> title (Place Name) for this place be? If the place is no longer a
> church, should that be recorded and if so, how? Should the Street field
> be set to "St Luke's Church, 25 High St"? Why or why not?
> 
> Cheers,
> Anne.
> 
>