I saw this on a mailinglist today. Seems to be a good idea. I know in gramps places can be part something else during a certain period. But can it do what is mentioned underneath? Last night I asked the twitterverse, “what ONE thing would you change about the genealogy industry”. Among the many…

Currently, a spot on a map, ie. a building, can have a name change throughout time. Most notably, hospitals have gone through name changes. Using the Alternative name tab in the place record, you can give these names changes a span of time when these were true. Then based upon the date of the event,…

And interesting thing to note is that latitude & longitude coordinates have a lifetime too. Although continental drift is usually small enough to be lost in the typical 16 ft radius of current typical smart phones, the Coordinate systems have evolved. The current Greenwich prime meridian has only b…

You could read this blog post from Tony Proctor about places as study objects like people - hierarchy, events, etc; Gramps V5.2 will complete these concepts: [image] A Place for Everything Why do people get in such a muddle with references to places? A common question on genealogical fo…

Tony’s STEMMA data model is very well thought out and it would be nice to see Gramps extended with similar capabilities. Adding Group has already been mentioned here before, although the term Sets was used. I know people have brought up being able to have sub-events of events before but really that…

[image] cdhorn: people have brought up being able to have sub-events of events before but really that is just looking for a way to group events. No it is not “just looking for a way to group events”. Grouping and Main-/Sub-Events are two totally different things! Main-/Sub-Events gives the …

Think about a more abstract Group object. A Group has a formation event, a dissolution event, members can join and leave at different times, the group has attributes that describe it, events that can happen to it, and events it can participate in. When the members are people you are using it to mo…

Thinking about it more, the act of joining a Group for a given subject is an Event as is the act of leaving. The membership of the group changes over time, so the Group itself has no list of members as that list is constructed from the participants at a point or over an interval in time. So concept…

I wrote a long answer explaining, but then I remembered what happened the last times I tried to join a discussion. So let it be with this: -“No, the Main/Sub-Events I have advocated for earlier, differ from the type of Groups you draft here, and it is not “just a way to group events””.

Your opinion and thoughts on things are valuable, don’t think they are not. Sometimes dicussions get heated because people are passionate about their points of view. I think the nature of conditioning makes it incredibly hard for any of us to set aside our perspective to see things other than the w…

Can you please drop me an email at cdhorn then @ then embarqmail a dot of course and com? I want to run some Zotero questions by you. Thanks!

Lifetime of places buildings etc

Ideas

PLegoux November 3, 2021, 4:02pm 4

You could read this blog post from Tony Proctor about places as study objects like people - hierarchy, events, etc; Gramps V5.2 will complete these concepts:

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Lifetime of places buildings etc

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