Win10 with 5.1.6 It would be a time saver for me if I could turn on an option flag to: When I create a Baptism, Christening or Burial event, that a Birth or Death event be created with Before (date), the same Place and a shared citation. This would save time creating new records. Of course you c…

Yes. That’s one of the things that I like about the Data Entry gramplet… that you can use another Person as a template for creating a new person. [image] It has some flaws, of course. The sourcing only clones the Source reference, it doesn’t share a Citation. So you ALWAYS have to tweak the sourc…

There’s a similar thread: [image] Default event type Ideas Here’s one thing that’s always given me trouble. When adding an event, Gramps tries to be smart and automatically sets the event type, either to BIRTH, DEATH, or BURIAL, depending on what events have already been…

For many people that I create, I have found a Baptism and Burial record. I create the person and create the Baptism event with the citation. I usually place a copy of the transcription in a note in the citation. I do the same for the Burial. Then I have to go back and create the Birth and Death rec…

There are several.threads if you search the forum for the term “Clone”. It really needs someone to run through all the proposals and rationalize them into a GEPS treatise.

Baptism is one of the Fallback Events for Birth. It is used when no Birth event is entered. Burial likewise is a Fallback for Death. Stillbirth has been added as a fallback for both Birth and Death in 5.2 When displayed, a fallback will be in italic and displayed wherever the main event would be …

Agreed, that is why I proposed that this be a feature that can be toggled on/off. If you upload to WikiTree, you must have the Birth and Death events because that site only has those fields. It just puts all the other events in the Biography section. So it is necessary to create them even if you do…

Time saver for data entry

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emyoulation October 20, 2023, 4:19pm 3

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