# "Sets" in Gramps

**URL:** <https://gramps.discourse.group/t/sets-in-gramps/924>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Tags:** dna\
**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/sets-in-gramps/924 "2020-11-10T20:30:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/sets-in-gramps/924/2 "2020-11-10T22:53:33Z")

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I think there are many interesting ways to record and organize data which don’t fit into GEDCOM. Saving a set of objects is less of a problem than representing it to users, so they can understand them and benefit from the changes. Clans/tribes might be possible just as a list, but how would you present heterogeneous sets with complex relationships where a list is not sufficient.

One idea I had recently was creating organisation objects:  
**Families** record close individuals through biological (and non-biological) relationships (e.g. parent-child), **associations** do that for friends and acquaintances and **organisations** would connect unrelated individuals through their jobs/positions in an organisation.

Person events especially occupation and military should take places as well as positions. The organisation should be a (hierarchal) list of job positions. Each position would be a list of individuals and a date or a time range when they had this position.

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