I have a number of Record Offices/Archives in the UK which I class as sources with the Repository as Ancestry.co.uk being my means of access these same Sources are also in my list of Repositories because I access them directly usually for information about record holdings but other times using the M…

Hi Phil, Nice! I work pretty much the same, and use Ancestral Quest and RootsMagic as external add-ons. My main tree sits in Gramps, and I recently bought a one year subscription to My Heritage, to find relatives here on the continent. I have data on Ancestry, FamilySearch, Geni, and My Heritage, …

Enno My head is shredded with the last few days wish I had not started thinking about it, I have read the wiki but not recently OK the Trye or de Trie there are 4 documents Repository: Gloucestershire Heritage Hub or Gloucestershire Archives (for you to choose) https://catalogue.gloucestershir…

I just make a repository for each type I use and link them all to the source… I give them each repository a type, use custom if I need to… e.g. Digital Images (copies) Repository Digital Index Repository Original Source Repository etc. etc. When I have multiple repositories for a source, I cre…

Thanks for that more to study but I think it proves the point about GRAMPS (Sources/Citations) it seems everyone is going to extraordinary lengths to get round the limitations of GRAMPS Phil

[image] Obstipatus: I really wish for a multi-level hierarchy for both Sources and Repositories that can be linked together and that Repositories also could be linked to Places… I like the idea of a hierarchy of sources to support layered citations.

IMO, these are not really the limitations of Gramps, but the limitations of GEDCOM 5.5.1. and even 7.0 for that matter. Both commercial and open source developers know, that there is not much to gain when their competitors stick to the same standards, and they also know that noone adopted GedcomX, w…

Hello Phil, I can understand what’s going on in your head, and I have to admit that my example was a bit of a trap. It’s a document that’s been on my reading list since years, and I did not add it to Gramps, because I had no chance to read it, until today. In this particular case, the document is …

Yeh, I think both that and Main-Sub Events fits very well into a tool like Gramps, even if many may say they not going to use it to use it, they most likely will if the feature is accessible. As long as it is easy to transcode a collection to a flat comma separated string, it is no problem that it …

Enno No trap different thought processes I found a Gloucestershire Collection I make no distinction between book, certificate, map, pedigree chart. So I did the citation as presented. If I later found evidence of an alternative or actually visited the Archive to inspect the items I would maybe…

Hello Phil, Although I understand what you mean, I don’t believe that many people really want hierarchical citations at all. They’re hard to enter already, with our current GEDCOM based hierarchy, and even though the archives store documents in fonds, most users just want to register whatever refer…

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The Enhanced Citation addon exists but has not yet been documented… even to the point of being added to the addons list.

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