From: Nick H. <nic...@ho...> - 2010-07-03 00:34:04
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Dianne, As usual, there is no one correct way of doing this but I have a few suggestions. If you are recording naval events you will probably want to use "Military Service" as the event type. To record service aboard a ship, create an event with type "Military Service". Set the date to the range of dates as appropriate. Set the description to the name of the ship (for army service you would record the regiment / unit etc... here). In this way you can easily find all people who served on the ship and their dates of service. For the place data, I suggest setting the country, city etc... to the home port of the ship. To record service in a particular naval action (such as "Battle of Jutland") also create an event with type "Military Service". Set the date to the date of the battle and the description to "Battle of Jutland". This event can then be shared with all people in your database that were at that battle. The "Battle of Jutland" took place in the North Sea off the coast of Jutland but the country / city field are not really relevant, but you could indicate its position by a latitude and longitude for mapping. You may not even choose to record a place against the event - instead you could record details of the battle including its location in an event note. Getting back to your actual example. If want to record a death at sea but don't know the name of the ship then I can't really suggest what you put in the country / city fields. You could either create a place and leave them blank, create a dummy country called "At Sea", or simply record the place in the event description rather than as an event. I suppose the "At Sea" country could also be used for a naval battle. It has also been suggested before that a ship be recorded as an attribute attached to an event. I hope that I have given you a few ideas. Regards, Nick. Dianne Reuby wrote: > Still cleaning up my inherited database, and working through the places. > I have some that aren't really places - for example a place of death > listed as "Battle of Jutland" or "at sea". > > At the moment these are simply listed in the places, but with no > additional data such as city or country - but should I change them to > something else rather than leaving them like this? > > TIA > Dianne > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > > > |