From: Enno B. <enn...@gm...> - 2013-09-25 16:00:18
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Jesse, > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Doug Blank <dou...@gm...> wrote: >> It should be the case in Gramps that you can have multiple events of a >> particular type. So, you could have multiple Birth events. Gramps will >> treat the first one as the "official" event for reports, guessing ages >> etc. > I really wish Gramps would allow the end user to specify which events > are more likely and which events are less likely in the case of > duplicate events. > > So if I believe that Jane Smith was probably born in 1858, but Jane > was a vain woman who would frequently lie to census records and > everyone else about her age, I could put down the multiple birthdates > I find for her for her and indicate that the 1858 date is the one I > have the most confidence in. Well, Doug's answer suggests that you can then put the 1858 date on top. The person editor allows for sorting of events, but it is something that I never really tried for events. I know that it works for names though, where it is like drag and drop. > It could even have Gramps be smart enough to indicate the ambiguity in > reports, reporting the date in the highest-confidence event, but > giving a range based on the other events. H'm I don't know if a range maxes sense. I mean, in the above example, you know that 1858 is most probably right, so adding a range would add an uncertainty that doesn't really exist. Her vanity was real, of course, but I would advise to put that in a note, not in the date itself. > And if there are multiple events with the same highest confidence > level, then Gramps could just treat it as a range. Shouldn't that be an OR then? Two specific dates are rare, and in my experience are mostly related to some missing information, or some misinterpretation, like the date of a birth certificate made for a child that was born months before on a ship, which was also near another town at the time of birth. Similar examples may exist for someone dying outside his or her home town, leading to one death registration in the town where the death happened, and another one in the town of residence. regards, Enno |