Re: [Gramps-users] Minor error on the website and a novice question.

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2011/4/2 Michael C Tiernan <mic...@gm...>

> There's a reference to the frappr.com website on the gramps
> Portal:Community page and frappr is long dead. :(
>
> Now my question as a Gramps & Genealogy novice:
>
> I've been looking for some form of doc (on the Gramps pages) that talks
> about using Gramps in a manner that is consistent with recognized standards.
>
> What I mean is, as an example, using Gramps, what is the "right" (*cough*)
> way to enter a person's name that is consistent with the way it would be
> done by others using paper or software?
>
> As a ferinstance, if I want to create an entry for a woman named:
>   Firstname: Fay
>  Middlename: Simian
>    Lastname: Ray
>  Marriedname: Kong
>    Nickname: Blondie
>
> >From what I can tell, according to the "standard practice in genealogy",
> it would be written as:
>   KONG, Fay Simian "Blondie", (Ray)
> If one were interested in maintaining that standard practice, how would
> they when using Gramps?
>

In Gramps speak this woman has two names, a birth name and a married name.
See the manual with person editor, name tab and name editor.

It seems you want this person to appear with the married name (this is
culture dependant), so you should enter the married name:
Given: Fay Simian
Family Name: Kong
Type: Married Name

Then open the name editor (edit button on person editor). This is a married
name, so you can enter in the date dialog when this name is used, eg "after
1966".  In the tab section, hit the attribute section and add the attribute
'Nickname', with value: Blondie.
Also add a source if you have one that is specific for the name (otherwise a
source on the person itself is sufficient).

Save. In the person editor, click on the Names tab, and then click on the
'Add' button to add an alternative name. For this name use:
Given: Fay Simian
Family Name: Ray
Type: Birth
Again you can add the attribute Nickname.

Using the context menu (right mouse click) you can indicate in the Names tab
what is the official primary name in case you entered birth name first.

About printing in reports KONG, Fay Simian "Blondie", (Ray), you need to go
to Edit->Preferences, and select the Display tab. There you can select how
names are formatted. Essentially, you can select whatever crazy scheme you
like yourself. You can add new different name displays. The default one is
used for all names, but in the name editor you can select for a specific
person another display type (there is a bug in current version which will be
fixed in next minor release). This is usefull when you have people from
different cultures and you want different name formatting for those (eg
slavic country with patronymics).

Feel free to write a 'How do I'  wiki page :-)
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:How_do_I...

Anyway, in the upcoming version 3.3, Nickname will be a specific entry field
on the name editor. Your nickname attribute will automatically be upgraded
to this nickname field when you upgrade to 3.3 in the future.

Greetings,
Benny

>
> (I don't expect anyone to answer that question here, I just want to know if
> there's already a webpage/wikipage or topic that addresses these things and
> where to find it.)
>
> Thanks for everyone's time!
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