I am interest in finding the “best practice” for storing grave information. I have quite a few burial records but currently only a few graves. When I get a record of an burial I create a burial event for that person and I create a citation for the source (parish record etc.). I store notes and images of the record in the citation. I am currently recording the burial place as the location of the individual grave, using the follow place structure:
"Grave - <first name on the grave> " enclosed by <Cemetery> enclosed by <Town/Village> etc.
My question is what is the best way to store images and inscriptions on the grave stones?
I am thinking of added the images to the gallery and inscription as a note attached to each grave “place”. Hopefully that way I will only store one image and note per grave and all that are buried there can share the grave details.
First, there is no “best practice”. There is the “Best Practice” that works for you.
I add images from the grave site to the Burial event galley and the same for any notes like inscriptions, etc. Any Plot site information I add as the events Attributes; the cemetery’s Section:## Plot:##, etc.
For the Place record, you have "Grave - " enclosed by enclosed by <Town/Village> etc…Most would have Cemetery, Town\Village, .....
But you can extend the place record down to the actual grave site in particular you want to add the GPS coordinates to the actual grave site.
Section\Plot, Cemetery, Town\Village, .....
Remember you will probably have more than one grave site in the same cemetery, each with their own GPS coordinates. If you add Section\Plot to the Place record, I would not then add it to the event’s attributes.
Images and Notes can be added to the citations as well. I would limit these to specific citation documentation.
@AHoyle, for me, figuring out what’s “best” also means thinking about how I want to use the information once it’s stored in Gramps. Will I be looking for it on specific reports? Will I be creating custom filters to find people having certain values? Will I be exporting it to GEDCOM and uploading it somewhere else? If you’re trying to decide among several alternatives, try each of them for a few different people, places, events, etc. and see how well they meet all of your needs before you invest a lot of time in a single approach.
I agree. @AHoyle, you don’t want to enter the same data in two different places, because it will surely get out of sync at some point. However, you can attach the same object to multiple other objects. For example, in this case you could attach an image of the grave to the Place record and also attach that same image object to the Event (that is, don’t import the image a second time in order to add it to the Event; that would create a separate image object). The built-in Clipboard (Edit → Clipboard) makes this very easy to do.
I use a custom place type of cemetery. The cemetery is enclosed in a town or parish or whatever.
Then each burial event has that cemetery as the place. That way, later I can do a place report on that cemetery, and list all the people from my tree who are buried at that cemetery. Very handy if I am visiting that cemetery.
I put the burial details (block, row, plot numbers) in the description for the burial event. But you could create a separate place for each plot, enclosed by the cemetery place.
I am not sure what happened to the formatting of my message, but the place structure I am using is :
Grave - < first name on the grave > enclosed by < Cemetery > enclosed by < Town / Village > etc.
I am still quite new to Gramps and Genealogy so I don’t have a clear usage for the information I am storing in Gramps. I am just enjoying learning about my family history. From your responses it don’t sound like I am doing it too badly “wrong”. Only time and experience will tell if it the “best way” for me or not.