From: Doug B. <dou...@gm...> - 2012-07-04 12:33:36
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On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:12 AM, doug <do...@o2...> wrote: > I'm wondering how best handle notes or narratives on the > origin, changes, distribution , etc. of a family surname: at > the moment I've got them as notes attached to a particular > person. > It doesn't seem very satisfactory to me; for this situation > ideally there might be a separate Name object not tied to > any particular individual. > What do other people do? Names can have notes, and notes can be shared. So, you could share the note that you have on a particular person with all of those names. Or you could make a new type of note, say a Surname History Note, and keep track of them independently from the names/people. If you did that, perhaps you could make a Feature Request for a Note Report which would print out all of the Notes which match a filter (and filter on Surname History Notes). I think you could even make a new View which only showed those Notes. If interested, let me know and I'll document how to do that. -Doug > Doug > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users |