Hi All,
I have found two new videos on YouTube that are good at showing how the user enters data in GRAMPS that might help new users :-
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Added (roughly, with only preliminary formatting) to Tutorial videos.
Inserted below the highly recommended introductory video tutorials course for Gramps 5.x by TechTutorials.
This are evidently specific to regional records. The record type and region is not mentioned in the Register video. (Without watching past the 1st 30 seconds, I’m guessing is similar to the US Census for Great Britain, or should that be UK? )
What are the “1939 Register” and “GRO Index of Births”?
The 1939 Register is like a short form census taken in 1939 because war was imminent and the authorities knew that the 1941 census would not happen (the 1931 destroyed by fire) it was quite extensive because it was used for the issuing of ration cards during the war and then later was continually updated into the 1970’s as part of the National Health Service database Covering England & Wales
The GRO is the General Register Office covering all England & Wales births marriages and deaths, from September 1837 onwards. Scotland, and Northern Ireland have their own equivalents as do the likes of the Isle of Man etc.
phil
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Thanks for that clarification on these UK record types.
The details reference Gramps Web by @DavidMStraub but doesn’t look like the Demo site I’ve explored. It looks like the desktop Gramps but shows a “saved search” that I do not recognize.
Brian
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It is GRAMPS Desktop and as ever with GRAMPS there are multiple ways to achieve the same ends just not the way I would do it.
FREEBMD and the GRO Index shown are index’s both from the same source both with omissions and errors I would never use a commercial site for these. Family Search also has this information in a slightly different format and is useful for deaths in certain ranges.
The 1939 Register is available along with the 1921 Census on both Ancestry and FMP. FMP did all the original indexing and had sole publication rights for many years.
So OKish but does a lot of needless skipping around
phil
PS I do get all the responses to my posts but thanks for the offer
A very pedantic subsequent note
The video uses the Qtr dates as the date of birth/deaths/marriages which is not correct the Qtr represents the range of date of registration not birth/death date actual(marriage is more than likely to be correct Qtr).
By law a birth in England & Wales can be registered up to 40 days after the event so if using birth event it should be the quarter -40 days.
Deaths occurring in the period between the 23rd Dec and 1st Jan are often carried over into the Jan Qtr so should be the quarter -7 days for the death event, thus burials could and did occur before registration.
phil
It looks like the “list of filters” is actually a record’s list of tag options with “Search for Birth Record” selected. So not a new/custom feature.
It looks like the user ran several searches and tagged the results each time. So, when he refers to “Saved Searches,” it’s actually more accurate to call them “saved/tagged results” from those earlier searches.
The key difference is that “saved searches” dynamically pull up the latest info every time you run them, while “tagged results” are just snapshots from a specific moment. As new entries get added to the tree, those saved results can become less useful. I initially missed this distinction, but I get it now.
It’s a pity—I jumped to the conclusion that he’d found a way to create and offer subsets of filters directly in the GUI.