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Re: [Gramps-users] GEPS 015: Repository Research Support
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From: Nick H. <nic...@ho...> - 2009-08-09 13:53:03
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This is a very good idea. I think that most of us have made research lists before visiting an archive that is more than a short drive away. It would be annoying to get home and then find something that you should have researched but forgot. So far I have approached this on a source by source basis. Civil Registration - GRO index ------------------------------ I start with FreeBMD and record the index entry in a 'GRO' attribute on the appropriate birth, marriage or death event. I wrote a report to list this attribute but I mainly keep track of the certificates I have ordered in a spreadsheet. Parish records -------------- Before I visit a County Record Office I like to know if there are any baptism, marriage or burial events that do not have a parish register source. I list these in the event view with a source and event filter. Census ------ I created a spreadsheet with all of my direct ancestors as rows and the census years as columns. I put a question mark against a census that is within the correct date range for a person. When I find the person I replace the question mark with their age on the census. If I find that census data is documented as missing for the date and place concerned I replace the question mark with a cross. I haven't written anything in gramps for this yet. I don't think there are any census reports in gramps yet - maybe I should write one. Wills ----- I have only just started looking at wills. My first thought has been to look at death events between 1858 and 1943 using the event filter. This gives a starting point for searching the National Probate Calendar. Your example of the National Archives was good. In addition to not forgetting to look at information that is only available at the National Archives, it may also be convenient to look at sources available elsewhere whilst waiting for original documents to be produced. For example, I searched the National Probate Calendar at the National Archives recently whilst waiting for a document, when it would normally be easier to use my local record office for that source. The idea of storing a list of repositories and their related sources is also a good one but may be difficult to implement. Also deciding if a source is relevant to a particular person may not be easy in some cases. Here is a short list of sources from the National Archives to give some examples: WWI records ----------- A research report for the National Archives could suggest searching these records for all men in the database who were in the correct age range during the First World War. This would be quite easy to do. Apprenticeships --------------- A research report could suggest searching these records for men having certain occupations within a given date range. This is more difficult because occupation may be stores as an event or an attribute. Railway Staff records --------------------- It would be nice if a research report would suggest a search for people within a given date range who worked for a railway company. This is even more difficult because the occupations could vary considerably. Including this level of detail of sources in a repository would be a big task. Perhaps a community maintained database could hold this information? Anyway these are just a few thoughts which may or may not be useful. They are also very UK based comments. I'll be interested to see how this idea develops. Nick. Richard Taylor wrote: > Hi > > I have written up some ideas about adding some research planning support > to Gramps. I would be very interested in the views of other users before > considering the practical implementation issues any further. > > Please take a look at: > > http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_015:_Repository_Research_Support > > And post any comments and suggests here. > > Many thanks. > > Richard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > > > |