Re: [Gramps-users] Notes on Family Names

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Martin Ewing <mar...@gm...>wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Doug Blank <dou...@gm...> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Martin Ewing <mar...@gm...>wrote:
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>>> This is an interesting question.  You can supply narrative about
>>> individuals and "families", but there is no category for "family line" -- if
>>> that is what the questioner has in mind.
>>>
>>> One could imagine that individuals or families (or even events, places,
>>> or sources) could be assigned to a "group", and that a group could have
>>> events, notes, etc.  A group could correspond to a family line (same
>>> surname?), DAR eligibility, or some other characteristic ("red hair" or
>>> "violin player"). I don't know how generally useful all that would be.
>>>
>>> I suppose we'd be told to submit a feature request!
>>>
>>>
>> Thinking out loud...
>>
>> There are two things here: the group (or category) that a name (or event,
>> etc.) is a member of, and features/attributes/notes of that group. We've
>> been thinking that it would be useful and modern to be able to "tag" a
>> person with labels for your own organizational ideas. That way, you could
>> label a person, name, event with these tags, and then use the tags to select
>> them in various ways.
>>
>> If one could put some notes on a tag, that might allow you a place to put
>> details about the group.
>>
>> Interesting idea...
>>
>> -Doug
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> Taggging would be good but not sufficient in this model.  You would want a
> way to associate a narrative or media item (or other entity) with a whole
> group of people, families, events, whatever.  Tags would allow you to
> indicate association, but you need an "group object" of some kind to hold
> the group information (notes, events, whatever).
>
>
Yes, I agree. So, one could apply the tag to an object, and also be able to
associate notes with the tag. That is what I meant to say.

-Doug


> Martin
> (confused about top-posting vs bottom-posting...)
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Beber <be...@me...> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to add notes/anecdotes about family names. Deformations,
>> evolution, the meaning in local language etc ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Bertrand
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>> --
>> Bertrand
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