Re: [Gramps-users] How to organize persons with two "birth dates"?

[Brad R. <br...@fi...>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:42:05 +0100
Renato Panda <pan...@gm...> wrote:

Hello Renato,

>So, if the better solution is to avoid custom events and use two birth
>events, what kind of event do you recommend for "registration", Tony?

I use the citation for that.  There are spaces for date, ID and Vol/Page.

I let Gramps assign the ID, the entry in Volume/Page depends on what the
source is;  GRO reference for BMD certs acquired from them, or the Page
and Entry number for details from a Parish Register, for example.

Finally, the date I enter is the date of registration, taken from the
certificate, or whatever.  In the event of a birth or death, it's likely
to be a different date from the date of the event.  If the event is
baptism, marriage, burial, etc. the registration date is likely to be
the same as the date of the event.

For this use case, I'd /still/ only list the one event (Birth), but use
the _actual_ date as the DoB with the registration's DoB recorded as a
note and the date of registration in the Citation's date field.

So, I don't use a separate Event for registration of BMD, etc.  In many
ways it can be considered an event in its own right but, in reality,
it's just an official verification of an event that's already occurred.

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