Re: [Gramps-users] Adding graves location

[Enno B. <enn...@gm...>]

Hi Doug,

> I admit I often have to "adapt" gramps fieldnames to my
> requirements.

You're not the only one. I inherited a large database from my father, who 
used Brother's Keeper at the time. And he came accross the problem that he 
found no way to store the religious denomination of his ancestors anywhere 
in a baptism event. BK had no notes field at the event level, and he thought 
it was not appropriate to put in the source field either, so he chose to 
append abbreviations like EL (Evangelical Lutheran), or RK (Roman Catholic) 
to the baptism date. BK didn't complain about that, but it gave me a lot of 
warnings when I imported his dataset in PAF, and I decided to remove these 
abbreviations from these dates, only to find out that PAF didn't have a 
field for religion either, and neither has Gramps.

Now this is an attribute that you could also attach to churches, especially 
when you add them as a location type, but some churches changed their 
denomination over time, so it's still some sort of white spot in the data 
model. And to stay within the subject, I know that a lot of grave yards are 
also linked to a specific religion, so there is still some information to be 
gathered from the place where someone was buried.

There's a nice page about the subject of places on the Gramps developers 
wiki:

http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_006:_Better_Place_handling

This shows that there are a lot of ways to improve things, on the long term 
anyway.

cheers,

Enno