Re: [Gramps-users] Re-How to input UK address

[Gerald B. <ger...@gm...>]

I often use the place name as a descriptor -- John's Farm -- then put
the address details below.

On 7/17/10, Les <btr...@bt...> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> Thank for the reply it did the job of making it clearer.
> Its all in the words!!
> I saw "Place" as "London England" no street, which is why I could not
> see the point of the Location tab with "Address fields" in it.
> Now I see "place" as the location for a building (Address) in the top
> Box, and the location tab for changes to the location. (My own house was
> in Surrey now its in London.) it all starts to fall into place, with
> "Event Residence" as the time someone was at the location and Address
> Tab for postal address changes for the same location.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Les........ Now about Sources...........That can wait for another day
> LOL.
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 10:40 +0100, doug wrote:
>
>> Hi Les,
>> Not sure if we're working from the same gramps version. I'm
>> using 3.2.3.
>> On 15/07/10 16:16, Les wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > As the question "How to input UK address" was not as silly as I thought
>> > it might have been, going on so many replys, Thank you all, let try
>> > this.
>> >
>> > We have some bricks which we call a "Residence" and info as to where
>> > they are located, and notes about the bricks.
>>
>> I think "Residence" is a *when*, rather than a where: the
>> person was 'there' for such and such a period or at such and
>> such a time. The 'where' is almost incidental, because the
>> actual details are held in the Place reference.
>>
>> >
>> > Next we have "Addresses" which contains "Postal addresses" to same
>> > bricks, with the differences to the postal addresses over the years.
>> I'm not sure what you mean by this.
>> My gramps version under Place has Place Name and Location.
>>
>> Folks, correct me if I'm wrong, but I take Place Name as
>> essentially whatever's written in the contemporary document.
>> And Location a means of breaking up that descriptive name
>> into categories that make for easier grouping in searches, etc.
>> Alternate Locations allow the particular geographical
>> position to change its name over the years (or so it seems
>> to me; is that right?) but as far as I can see they give no
>> way of recording the actual documented new Place Name.
>> Alternatively a changed Place Name can be recorded by adding
>> Notes.
>> However, I don't think you can search for revised Place
>> Names only present in Alternate Locations or Notes.
>>
>> Lat/Long are permanent (well, almost) references to a
>> particular geographical position. So if one could search on
>> Lat/Long - or if Lat/Long items had references to Places,
>> the problem of a place being described differently at
>> different times could be dealt with by just creating a new
>> Place and Place Name. The Lat/Long reference would then keep
>> track of it's being the same as some other Place Name.
>>
>> Wishful thinking!
>>
>> >
>> > Then "Places" ---- which I take as being "Southwark, London, England" ie
>> > basics info as to where the "Bricks/Residence" is located in the World
>> > which can have a number of "Addresses/Residence etc" attached to it. (my
>> > own Southwark has over 50 attached)
>> > So why is there Address fields on the place page?
>> > (I am missing something some where.)
>> >
>> > Sorry if  this is silly but I have books get magazine etc, which only
>> > tell you where and how to get information, not how to log it all once
>> > you have got it.The most I have found is the Gramps pages,which I must
>> > be wearing out the number of times I have read them. LOL
>> > Les
>> >
>> Doug
>

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