Places across Hierarchy boundaries
Florian Teply <[email protected]>
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Hi there, currently I'm trying to wrap my head around how places are handled in gramps. We all know that in history places of all sizes were moved not physically but politically between bigger places. That is, City A might have belonged to Country Z until Year Y, and to country G after that time. But now I have faced a situation, where it's not too clear to me how to handle: I discovered ancestors which lived in Berlin, Germany. I do suspect that there might not be a definitive answer here as it becomes somewhat philosophical, but consider this: As you probably know, Berlin existed as a single entity before the end of WW II. Afterwards, parts of it belonged to the German Democratic Republic, while other parts belonged to the Federal Republic of Germany (or strictly speaking did not belong to it legally, even though most laws were enacted to be valid in the Federal Republic of Germany and Berlin (West)), and since 1990 all these parts belong to one legal entity. Question is: how would you model this in gramps? Personally I feel, even though the city was split between countries, it is still one city and should as such be one place. But can a place belong to two mutually exclusive entities at the same time? For the individual suburbs which make up Berlin as a whole the situation is clear, as they belonged to either this or that part, but not both simultaneously. This could be solved using two places of the same name. On the other hand, having two places Berlin, Germany seems to lead to confusion down the road in cases where it is not entirely clear which one is applicable. What would you do? Best regards, Florian -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org