From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2008-05-30 07:15:35
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Jim, a question for you below ;-) 2008/5/25 Doug Laidlaw <lai...@ho...>: > I am coming over to Gramps after too many fights with Windows programs. I > am > not against Windows as such, but nothing except Gramps seems not to make my > father the root person and reshuffle everybody else. I am not a Mormon or > a > professional genealogist, just a hobbyist. I found the procedures not > intuitive, but easy to learn. > > Two quick questions: > > (a) I am using the Mandriva package under KDE. What is the spelling > checker > that is referred to as not enabled, on starting up in a terminal? > > (b) Setting deceased people as deceased. I used Y on the DEAT tag. Gramps > has moved them all to the DEAT/PLAC tag, so I can't delete the place "Y". > Is > it done differently under Gramps? Or do I leave it like that? In GRAMPS, deceased is indicated by adding a death event. If you do not know the date, just don't give a date. Like this, you can add a source to the death event, or a note explaining how you know somebody is death. I have broken my head on this before, and now can't remember the conclusion. It must mean I can't think of a good reason for this thing in GEDCOM. I'm not much into GEDCOM, but I believe the Y on DEAT event is not implemented in GRAMPS, Jim worked on this, and changed some stuff, he should be able to explain better. Benny |