Re: Places across Hierarchy boundaries

Berlin was 2 cities, East-Berlin and West-Berlin, between 1949 and 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Berlin

So before 1949 it is Berlin, between 1949 and 1960 two parts of the city,
then back to only one city in 1991.

You must have 3 places, two of them, East-Berlin and West-Berlin, doesn't
exist anymore.

Le ven. 4 févr. 2022 à 22:42, Florian Teply <[email protected]> a écrit :

> 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
>
>
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