[Gramps-users] Fwd: (English) areas - how to categorise?

[Jesse M. <da...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Ron Johnson <ron...@co...> wrote:

> On 02/13/2013 09:27 AM, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> > For example, say "South Carolina" is a part of the United States from
> 1777
> > to 1861, then
> > it would be a part of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to
> 1865,
> > then it would
> > return to being part of the United States from 1865 to the present day.
> > Then if I added Charleston as a location that's part of South Carolina,
> the
> > rest of the
> > information would be filled in automatically.  So if John Smith was born
> in
> > Charleston in 1
> > 835, and had a daughter in the same city in 1863, the country would
> change
> > automatically
> > when the location of "Charleston" was selected for both births.
> > Thoughts?
>
> The rule base for such a scheme would be... large.  And complicated.
>

The user could add the hierarchy and dates as needed.

I doubt the majority of gramp users would care to go into so much
detail, but some researchers might.