Gramps 5.2.3 Win 11
Are there any benefits to adding spouses as People who have entirely unknown given names and surnames (i.e., Unknown Unknown), and no other Dates or Places? I wish to delete, but checking here before I dump them.
The existence or non-existence of a parent does make a difference in the behavior of certain filter rules. I don’t have the particular examples handy, but I recall cases where I needed to add (or remove) such people in order to get my custom filters to work as desired.
I don’t think so, unless you need them, because they connect to other people that you do know more about. This means that I remove most of them, except in the situations that you mentioned.
I try to avoid using names like unknown, or ‘onbekend’ in my language, because that’s not really their name, and it’s a problem when I exchange data with relatives in other countries.
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I will add an [unknown] entry such as an in-law.
Old records may be something like John Smith married Jane the daughter of William Smith. Obviously, Jane had a mother which at this time is [unknown].
One reason I add it at the same time is to have their Gramp ID’s in sync. Plus, it makes a great visual clue that the record is missing information more so than the clue William Smith is missing a wife.
Similarly, if you need to link a person with a known relationship to an unnamed relative:
- John Smith’s sister-in-law was Mrs. Frank Jones
- Samuel Thompson’s nephew, Mark Thompson.
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I do enter a record when all I know is the first name like Jane unknown when they are found on Baptism or other records. I don’t think I have needed to add unknown unknown because if I don’t know who the person is how would I know the names for the next generation.
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