I’m using the most recent version of Gramps on Windows 11. I’m not new to genealogy but just started using Gramps in an effort to organize myself better (my tree is very long).
What I’m struggling with is deciding how to use Citations properly for certain profiles. There’s parts of my tree that go far to late 1500. Many of the people included in this part of the tree I only have seen mentioned in other people’s registers (as for example, a couples child wedding, I see them being mentioned as parents but I have no proper register from themselves). What I did before using Gramps is adding this event as a citation and specify something as “Mentioned at the marriage of his daughter XX in Xx date and xx place.”. otherwise that specific profile won’t have any citations to it. Does anyone have any input on how to proceed with this cases?
I also am struggling with knowing which profiles should have a certain event as a Citation. For example, parents in a baptism register. Should the Citation of the baptism be added to the parents or only to the child?
Thanks a lot in advance, I hope what I mean is understandable:)
As with anything in Gramps, there are as many ways to do things as there are Gramps users.
I only source information that offers proof for the event. A death certificate proves the death. But it probably has birth information. I’ll extract the birth info but not use the death citation as proof. Others will source everything wanting to know where they received the clue to that tidbit of information.
Maybe a s/c is needed for a relative that is mentioned in something like an obituary especially when it is your first clue that the person existed.
Gramps allows events to be shared with more than the primary person for the event.
You mention a baptism record. Obliviously the event belongs to the child. I do not add the event to the parents. That the child is in the parent’s family is obvious. But it can be added to the godparents. You can share the event created for the child and add the same event to each godparent. The child would have the role as Primary. The godparents would get the Role “Godparent”.
The event has shared information. Any information added to these tabs is shared with every instance of the event. The Reference information section has tabs that belong to the single person sharing the event. There are many types of events that can be shared.
Yes, I do this too, and also attach certain other citations directly to persons (rather than events) fir similar reasons.
But now I’m struggling to create a custom filter, either to find people who have citations attached directly to them, or to find citations that are attached directly to people. Any suggestions?
Edit: actually, I think I’ve figured it out. One filter finds events having citations; another finds people not having any of those events, but having citations. Seems to work?
I just did a test using the Citation/Source filters in the People categories. I wanted to confirm that these rules are only for S/C attached directly to the Person’s record. Any S/C attached to an event attached to the person is NOT included in the filter.
Of course then the problem becomes… what was the name of the source to filter on?
Then there is the tried-and-true method of attaching a tag “Needs Work” to the person. Eventually, I may have a database with no such tags.
Biographical book may be more appropriate to attach (as a primary source) to a Person or a Family. Citing every fact/event would clutter rather than clarify.
And Places might have a gazetteer citation or a local history book citation.
Repositories might have a citation to their history, mission statement or Finding Aids.
An obituary from Newspapers.com or similar sites. I attach to the person’s S?C. I even have a generic “Newspaper Clipping” source for that clip given to you by Aunt Mary.
My mother’s side of the family mostly came to Massachusetts in the 1630’s. There are extensive published works done by earlier professional genealogists or an earlier family member. Or published biographies.
