Re: [Gramps-users] Documenting relationships - am I missing something obvious?

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

On 21/01/14 15:08, Enno Borgsteede wrote:
> When I have the patience for it, which is quite often not the case, I
> try store every piece of evidence, not matter whether it's an email or a
> record on a web page, in a Gramps citation. I write citation here, not
> source, because it allows me to group emails from a single author, or
> records from a single site.

I also create sources to hold a group of related sources.  I find it 
looks better in the interface.


>
> In most cases, I then connect citations to events, not relationships.
> That is because in most cases, the citation reflects a single birth,
> marriage, or death record, which I consider proof for an event, which
> then implies a relationship.

The vast majority of my citations are connected to events.  Some are 
connected to attributes.


>
> In some cases, you don't find direct information about an event in a
> document, for instance when you use a census. In that, you can use the
> ages of the family members as a sort of proof for birth events, with
> approximate dates, but in general a census has no proof for a marriage
> event, in which case, it can probably be better used as evidence for the
> relation itself. Same for genealogies that you find on the web.

The Overview gramplet is useful for displaying Age, Condition (Marital 
Status), Occupation and Where Born attributes connected to event references.


> In this case, conflicting evidence, can most times be translated to
> conflicting events, like multiple births for a single person. Gramps can
> perfectly work with that.
>
> One problem I see is that evidence (citations) for events is not shown
> when you look at a persons data. You have to select an event for that,
> and I would love for Gramps to be expanded in such a way that all
> citations for events can be seen without clicking each individual one.

The Citations gramplet should show all citations for a person, including 
citations for events.

The Source Media gramplet will do the same, but also give you a 
thumbnail of citation media.  Double-clicking will let you view the 
image in the default viewer.


>
> And when I think of it, there may be a gramplet for that, I don't know.
> I have the same wish for the other way around, btw.

I seem to remember writing a gramplet to do this, but didn't make it 
public.  What exactly are you looking for?


Nick.