I had a need to research the landlords, namely the lists of peasants who were subordinate to them. Each year these lists were different. And vice versa. If we examine an individual peasant, he was subordinated to different landowners/nobles in different years.
How would you solve such a problem? Maybe someone has already done similar research in Gramps.
I do not have this exact problem, but I research the Norwegian Mercantile fleet and the sailors often sailed on different ships in a “rotation”-kind way.
I have the different ships as Places under the Company or Line.
Then I add an Event for each Journey of the ship (reason I want Events for places), link a person to the corresponding Event each time he/she (Yes, I have found some female sailors) went on a different ship, I added a custom type to the relation to the Event and I also added the Owners etc. for each ship with their different relation types, I also add ALL the seamen on the the ship with their respective relation.
In your case, I would have added an Event for each “rotation” for the landowner/noble with the estate as a place, and then added custom relations for the peasant(s), I would have added all the peasants because it can be that some of them end up as family somehow.
This is another example where Events on Places and Main/Sub-Events would be a great feature…
I actually do all this in Markdown files (using Obsidian and Foam for VSC) now, because it is a lot easier to register this type of information when you have more possibilities for linking and writing…
I can import or create a list with all the peasant (in your case), and just use wiki-links to link them to the different rotation events for the estate and also have information for the estate, the owners/nobles etc. etc. and view all of the information in a network graph and filter it on i.e. dates, estates etc.
When I have found everything, I can, I register the data in Gramps, and add links to the Markdown Notes (my research logs, research plans etc.).
Hope you got atleast an idea of how to do this…
Edit: Had to add half a sentence to give it meaning in the third section
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