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Re: [Gramps-users] Problem
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From: Gerald B. <ger...@gm...> - 2011-08-19 18:45:27
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OK -- you must have shared the birth event with all the siblings. So, you need to preserve the one shared event -- for the twins -- and remove the other siblings from that event. then, add unique birth events for each of the other siblings. That should do it. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Jean McClendon <jea...@gm...> wrote: > No, I did not add a new event, I was just changing the birth place of the > twins as I already had the date but found out today by listening to a > Memorial Tape of one of the twins that said they had been born in Osceola, > Polk County, Nebraska. I went to where the birth date was and clicked on > the paper and pencil as I already had a previous place of Clarks, Merrick > County, Nebraska and wanted to change it to the above. When I do this > though it changes every sibling to Osceola, Polk, Nebraska. Is there now a > way to correct this so it doesn't continue to do this? There are times that > I need to change a place and do not want this to continue to happen. Thank > you. Jean > > On 8/19/11 1:02 PM, Gerald Britton wrote: >> >> It sounds like you are changing the place record. did you do >> something like this: >> >> 1. add a new event -- birth >> 2. choose a place >> 3. change the details in the place >> >> ? >> >> That would cause the results you're seeing. Here's what I usually do >> for a birth >> >> 1. Add a child, put in name, >> 2. Add an event to the child (birth) and put in the date >> 3. If I have the place in my database, use the pointing finger to look >> it up. If not, use the plus sign to add a new place to my db >> >> For twins, I add the first one, then share the birth event. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Jean McClendon<jea...@gm...> >> wrote: >>> >>> When I put in the twins birth place under where you are supposed to place >>> it >>> (under place in the same section) Osceola, Polk County, Nebraska, it >>> changes >>> it for all of the other siblings as well to having been born in Osceola, >>> Polk County, Nebraska. My father and all of the other three siblings >>> were >>> born in Clarks, Merrick County, Nebraska but if I then change my father's >>> birth place to Clarks, Merrick County, Nebraska it again changes all of >>> the >>> siblings including the two born in Osceola to having been born in Clarks, >>> Nebraska. If I make a notation in this note section (again under where >>> you >>> place the birth, death date etc.) it places that note in every siblings >>> note >>> which is not necessarily correct. I should not have to go to each >>> "Person" >>> note and put in there "was not born in Osceola, Polk County, Nebraska, >>> was >>> born in Clarks, Merrick County, Nebraska." That takes up more time than >>> I >>> want to spend when I should be able to just put down where they were born >>> and have it stay just for that child. >>> >>> The one with the two wives, both wives were buried in the same town in >>> two >>> different cemeteries and he died in another town a short way away and is >>> buried in the same cemetery as wife #2 but when I try it put this >>> information in the correct way it changes all death places to the same >>> place >>> and everyone is in the same cemetery. >>> >>> I consider this a BUG because not everyone in a family may have been born >>> in >>> the same town. Will Rogers is a prime example, he was born and died in >>> Oklahoma but he traveled with his family to many different states >>> following >>> the Vaudeville Circuit, some of his children are born in New York, others >>> in >>> Oklahoma and then others back in New York or another state. You cannot >>> accurately put down where someone was born with this BUG in Gramps. Is >>> there not something that can be done to correct this? It is driving me >>> bonkers! Jean >>> >>> On 8/19/11 12:00 PM, Gerald Britton wrote: >>>> >>>> first off, which event have you shared? Of course, most of us have >>>> unique birth events -- twins and triplets being obvious exceptions. >>>> So, IIUC, your dad has one birth event (unshared) but his twin >>>> brothers have a shared birth event. Similarly, a husband/wife usually >>>> share a marriage event (though there can be exceptions!). Tragically, >>>> some will also share a death or burial event, though I suppose that is >>>> exceptional. Mostly, those would be unique (unshared) events as well. >>>> >>>> Try only sharing events when the participants truly shared them. See >>>> if that helps at all. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Jean McClendon<jea...@gm...> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I see the notation about any shared event will be placed in all >>>>> participants but how about when not everyone is born or died or is >>>>> buried in the same place. My Dad was born in Clarks, Merrick County, >>>>> Nebraska but his two oldest (twin) brothers were born in Osceola, Polk >>>>> County, Nebraska. The twins were the only ones born in Osceola >>>>> everyone >>>>> else was born in Clarks, Nebraska, but when I put that in their birth >>>>> place it changes every sibling to having been born in Osceola, Polk >>>>> County, Nebraska which is incorrect for everyone else. I also have >>>>> one >>>>> that was married twice and was buried in the same Cemetery as the >>>>> second >>>>> wife, the first wife is buried in another Cemetery (it could be the >>>>> other way around I just don't remember) but when I put in his death >>>>> place it not only changes both wives to the same death place but it >>>>> shows both wives at the same Cemetery as the husband when this is just >>>>> not correct. Why do you have to have that "shared" event when it is >>>>> not >>>>> always true. How do I deal with this? If I make a note under the >>>>> event >>>>> it again puts it under everyone (siblings) when this is again not >>>>> always >>>>> the case. Do I just make a notation under the "person" note but this >>>>> still doesn't take care of the problem with where they were born or >>>>> died. 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