Re: [Gramps-users] [Fwd: [Gramps-devel] Family View]

[Steve H. <dig...@da...>]

From: "Gerald Britton", Tue, October 31, 2006 7:25 am> > The proposed changes to the family view make it look like the> relationship view, albeit simplified. I'm actually not proposing any changes to existing views, this is abrand new one.> I really don't see the point. The point is clarification, the current Relationship view:o Doesn't show complete information about the parentso Has an individual at the top instead of parents (confusesnavigation...clicking at the top does not go up in the tree)The Family Group is a common method of arranging information so thatthe researcher can verify all the facts of an individual and spouse,including those that might be have some commonality with theirchildren...> Also it's not obvious to me how you would edit family related events> etc.Events should be related to individuals, not families. Strictlyspeaking, if an event is related to multiple individuals, they allneed to be linked directly to it, not linked through an abstractcollection of people.The reason is because a collection of individuals do not share a factexactly or in the same way. A plague, a move, a fire, animmigration... it is *very* important to record each and everyindividual's direct relationship to a fact instead of blindlyattaching it to a whole group. Almost always, as more information isresearched, there will be exceptions so that a family fact would beinaccurate or flatly wrong for one of the connected parties.Now this is a distinction from *shared* events. A marriage or divorcewould be an example of a special fact that two individuals share. Butthere are only a handful of these types of special events, even birthfacts are typically not recorded for the mother unless the issue failsto live!So I'm saying that GRAMPS' family editor dialog and family-relatedfacts should go away. Let events be recorded through the Edit Persondialog, and allow special events like marriages to be shared. And havea good Family View so that the researcher can compare these facts onone screen.-- Steve Hall  [ digitect dancingpaper com ]