Re: handling roles or positions
Enrique via Gramps-users <[email protected]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 13:47:24 +0200
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-- -- Mensaje enviado por Enrique a través de Evolution El sáb, 05-08-2023 a las 11:25 +0000, Jon Smith escribió: > You could use a custom tag and link everyone that lived during their reign. > Not sure that will give you the timeline view you want. It really needs the > Relationship view to be expanded to different types of user-defined > Associations (aka the FAN Club of Elizabeth Shown Mills - Friends, Associates, > Neighbors). RootsMagic added that feature, so did FamilySearch. > > Showing everyone during a particular reign can be very valuable as you go back > and the records get scarce. A little analytics goes a long way! > > Great idea! > ________________________________ > From: Tim Dudgeon <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2023 5:12 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [Gramps-users] handling roles or positions > > I've been using gramps for some time for handling traditional family tree > information, and generally am very happy with it. Keep up the good work! > I've now come across a need for a system that can track and manage > historical information, of which descendancy is an important part, but > there are other aspects that are equally important, and I've not found a > good way to do this in gramps. Am I missing something or are there better > tools to handle this? > As an example, let's consider the kings and queens of England. It would be > relatively straightforward to create a family tree (or trees!) to describe > the descendancy aspect, but what about the role or position of monarch. And > the role of heir to the throne (prince of wales in England, Dauphin in > France). You would want to be able to create these roles and assign them to > the relevant people for the relevant periods and be able to view the > timeline of the roles as first class citizens, not just buried somewhere > deeply (e.g. an event then the person became king/queen). > Other examples where this would be useful is for presidents, popes, prime > ministers, and many, many others. > Would welcome any thoughts on this. > Tim > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > -- > Gramps-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.sourceforge.net%2Flists%2Flistinfo%2Fgramps-users&data=05%7C01%7C%7C11672d02527c454a136e08db95946b02%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638268236923123971%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hrAcktvnzalrq8r8%2B8v0pGbslGFJhUuyfq6QjS8k8Hk%3D&reserved=0 > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users> > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgramps-project.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C11672d02527c454a136e08db95946b02%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638268236923123971%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=u146p1cr3PV52caKd0q0YWCiJ%2FEfiat3JzgVqtyzPco%3D&reserved=0 > <https://gramps-project.org/> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > See: https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Filters#Tag_selection_dialog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org