When a Source lists an Event using an approximation, relative direction, or is ambiguous about the Place; how can you record this qualifying information in Gramps? Is it limited to using the description?
As examples: “near Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA”, “20 miles east of Albany, New York, USA”, “Springfield township, Pennsylvania, USA” (could be in any of 3 counties), “probably Maryland, USA or Frankfurt, Germany”.
Of course, all locations are approximations (even hydrogen atoms have internal structure…)
More concretely, it’s often easy to use the next “level up” in the heirachy, possibly with a note or description. For example, if I know a house is within a street, I’ll use the street as the location (with a lat/long) and add the housename as a description/note.
I’ve also used the location of adjacent properties (in UK census), for example when a household is within 2 household of a pub. Pubs are easy to find on old maps in the UK!
Failing which, if you feel it’s important, the hierharchy model is pretty flexible.
I have 2 adjacent villages called “North Lopham” and “South Lopham”. It’s common for records to just say “Lopham”. Sometimes you can infer from context which one it is. But I have put both of them within “The Lophams”.
So my two 2 places in the heirarchy are:
“England->Norfolk->The Lophams->North Lopham”
“England->Norfolk->The Lophams->South Lopham”
With the Lophams a “proper” Place in its own right.
So sometimes I create a pseudo-place and sometimes I use a note. It just depends on how important (and frequent) the record is.
Attempting to use Gramps to fully define the whole world, and everything in it, for all of time is a fool’s errand, which I try to avoid.
for this case, maybe two events, one by place, and a common note to indicate the source approximation
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