Several timelines in other record systems have overlays of historical Events on Personal Timelines. Sometimes these Event overlays are intrusive but sometimes they can be enlightening. If Gramps had a function to add events to Places, it would open a whole new level of analysis possibilities. As …

I see more and more people actually ask for a way to practice Event-based and document based research, even though they don’t know that that is what ask for… I think its a good thing that the deep connection gramplet look at the internal links, but it should have been a way so that it also showed t…

[image] Obstipatus: So what I do as only way I have found is to enter all Events on the Journey as single Events in chronological order… That is why I really would like the “Main Event” - “Sub Event” feature… and the possibility to register Events with Places as subjects for the Events… I ju…

An idea: does someone use legal entities or corporate entities as persons? i.e.: A regiment could be a person (not a physical person but a legal, a juridical entity) with all its events in times and places. Some of these events could be shared with people who participate. a ship too. The ship as …

[image] PLegoux: regiment could be a person Interesting. You might make an Association of ‘Corporal’ with that Regiment entity. (Or ‘Attached’ if the rank was unknown.) It would be nice if the Association allowed a date range to be set too … for when there is a more defined window of interac…

[image] Obstipatus: You could use “Enrolled”, “Enlisted” or “Regular” for those without a rank… I use Enrolled, Drafted, Enlisted, or Mustered In (depending on the way they joined) in the description of a ‘Vocational : Military Service’ Event for a branch (Army, Navy, Militia, etc.) of servi…

I had tried to do this with the current architecture and the idea worked out well until I tried to run a Narrative web report. The legal persons’ associations were “listed” in each person page, but not actually linked, so the other ‘natural persons’ associated with the same legal person were not vis…

[image] Brinycoolie: if we can institute a new type of person as a ‘Legal person’ May be creating a fourth type of person: male, female, unknown and legal ?

[image] Obstipatus: There are one other problem to with the “Legal Persona” approx in Gramps as it is today… the naming standard… for a “Legal Persona” the name are neither “surname” nor a “given name”, so where shall the name of the Legal unit go? and what if it has sub-units i.e a Batalion has…

[image] Obstipatus: and under the place module we can already create Legal Units, Administrative Units, Military Units, Clerical Units and any other Unit we need, some of us just need a more advanced way to work with Events… You wrote that many times in this thread but I don’t understand how …

Then you will really like one of the place enhancements coming with 5.2. Right now, places have one enclosed by hierarchical structure. Under the 5.2 enhancements, the current structure will be its Administrative Hierarchy Type. A place can have more than one Hierarchy. Suggested others are Cultura…

Societal Events: Events connected to Places

Ideas

DaveSch June 12, 2020, 10:25pm 40

Here is a screenshot I created in a test database.

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Societal Events: Events connected to Places

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