Re: [Gramps-devel] wish list

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 07:13, Bo Ros=E9n wrote:
> 1. As you may know genealogical research in Sweden is dominated by
> church archives and the way the Swedish Church is geographically
> organized. Something a Swedish researcher cannot do without is
> information about Parishes as this forms the basis for almost all
> records we use. So, for Places, is there any way to include that? For
> research in Sweden, we really only need a place name and parish, though
> naturally we need other types of information for immigrants and
> emigrants.
> Would it be possible to add an option of which place categories (City,
> State, Country etc for lack of a better word) to show in the place view
> and to add parish?

I think this could probably be done. Parish is also a common division in
the Catholic Church in the US as well.

> 2. Another useful thing would be a merger option for places and possibly
> sources (haven't really checked if the last is needed).=20

I've been kind of holding off on mergers for a while until the database
becomes stable. With the 0.6.0 release, I think the database will be
pretty stable, so mergers will be at the top of the list.=20

Merging is not a easy topic - especially automatic mergers, or
developing a list of potential mergers. With the support of multiple
sources, it should become easier.

=20
> 3. Doing a merger, it would be useful if it was somehow possible to mark
> the two persons as a possible merger. I realize that you can just do a
> new merger, but I think it would be a help.

Agreed.

>=20
> 4. for IDs, a dash between the I and the number would make it more
> legible - not least for people with tired eyes. For consistency, after
> P's too.
>=20
> Thoughts?

What about a user defined prefix? That way you could specify "I-", "P-",
"Person", or whatever you wanted.

Don

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