I am working through my tree putting sources and media onto
events and other items.
The ability to share an event can be very useful, especially
for a census record. I can create a single event record, attach the source
and a copy of the media, and then share it across all of the members in the
family. Sensibly, if the Head of the family is within the tree, I would
create the event under his individual entry and then share it across the
rest of the family.
Thus, my father's 1911 census is shared from my
grandfather's 1911 census. My grandfather has his own censuses for 1891,
1901 and 1911, shared with his children, and has the 1871 and 1881 census
shared from my great-grandfather. This works out very well; as I only need
to create each event record once and the families all get the same
information, sources and media. When I report on the tree, I get the census
entry listed in detail on the original individual, together with a list of
the people it is shared with. They get a shortened entry referring back to
the original entry. This is very good and can reduce the size of the reports
- until I decide to start the report from my grandfather onwards. Then I get
two entries referring to my great-grandfather's census entries, which are
not in the report.
If I look at my great-grandfather, he will get one shared
from his father, one from his mother, one from his brother-in-law, four of
his own and finally one shared from his oldest son. Again, depending on how
this is reported, there will be entries with references to events on people
not in the report. If I look at his oldest son, my great-uncle, I find that
he has never lived with his parents until the 1911 census, when his father
lived with him. In his first census, while his parents and three younger
children have moved (from Great Wakering, Essex to Swanscombe, Kent), he was
living with his step-grandfather and his grandmother in Ipswich, Suffolk.
Logically, I should create this census event under the step-grandfather's
entry and share it, but then I have to ensure that a report on my
great-grandfather also includes my other great-grandmother - since using the
great-grandfather will only get a reference to an event on my
great-grandmother's second husband.
So the idea of sharing events looks good, but does have a
number of issues. Ideally, we need for the reports to be able to print one
full copy of the shared events, either against the owner of it, if he is
included, or against one of the shared copies if the owner is not included.
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Regards
Chris
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