DonF wrote:... I'd never suggest there is only one 'right way'.

Indeed.

... Adrian's question of why would anyone want to record a book being in more than one repository, when the important thing is that he found it in a particular library, let me give an example. ... Yes and no. ( ;) ) Yes, because your justification for doing what you suggest is sensible. No, because...

Thanks for your description of TMG, Don. ... I think the 'Master-Source' concept is there in other products to try and address the 'source of a source' dilemma. ... Yeah - when I was working with the BetterGEDCOM initiative, I tried to get a definition of Master-Source and failed dismally. I even fo...

.... and I should also have added that a TMG Source can refer to MULTIPLE Repositories - that is a book can be found in multiple libraries. This obvious real-world situation is not allowed by some packages - Legacy, for example, only allows one Repository per Source, implying every book in the worl...

Just as a matter of interest, to see one measure of the TMG <-> FH differences - can anyone comment on the TMG data-model in the area around Respositories, Sources, Citations and Facts? GEDCOM and therefore FH use (stupid to try to do it in words, I know) 1. A Repository can contain many Sources. 2....

... Marriage Registration ... Just as an incidental - marriage "registration" has been an integral part of the marriage ceremony in England & Wales from its introduction in 1837. Marriage registration in Scotland, however, is a separate event and I understand that the intended "s...

I was talking about the FMP index. ... Oh good - I rather hoped you were. Apologies for doubting you! ... They have been gradually adding mother's maiden name to their index of pre 1911 births for some time now. I don't know whether they are doing this by 'scraping' the data from GRO on-line, as Me...

They have been steadily adding to it since they first started showing mothers' maiden names a few years ago. It's pretty good now, but I think there may still be a few gaps because I am still occasionally seeing entries where there is no mother's name in the index. (i.e.not even a repeat of the chi...

... If you publish a single (publicly available) record without explicitly linking it to an identifiable individual, not so much. So the GRO website is in the clear. ... Also the GRO is intended to compile this data, index it and publish those indexes. But certainly, I would agree that compiling &q...

... As a general rule, I create Residence facts if I have have specific evidence for them -- so if a Baptism record records the Abode of the parents, I create a Residence Fact to record that Abode, alongside the Baptism fact, ... Me too. What I was going to add is to be very, very scared of using F...

You're not over-thinking - a little analytical thinking always helps me to get things straight - and usually to reduce what I was tempted to do. Mind you, I did have a career in programming... Caveat - for various reasons I don't use Ancestral Sources - partly, I think I'd got set in my ways by the ...

I believe that most people will use the citation date to mean when the source document was created - in this case the date of baptism. Feel free to omit it in favour of a date in what you are putting in the "Text from Source".

... I'd go further and say that (under my personal approach) even Ancestry is not the repository but part of the publication process, literally making the information accessible to the public. ... Definitely part of the publication process for me too. ... I regard the physical location of the origi...

General Usage, I suggest - researching Drouin is only a minor aspect...???

Quick thoughts which I might add to later... ... Mr. Gabriel Drouin of the now Drouin Institute actually is the source of the records, Ancestry uses them under license. Mr Drouin went to every church and court house and filmed all of the registers. ... Indeed - but we might be getting potentially bo...

Sorry - I forgot to add that I'd envisage storing a dummy version of this as a Source Record in FH that I could copy and edit for each real source.

I'm not remotely familiar with the Drouin collection - other than the last few minutes I've spent looking at it on Ancestry! I've also no idea whether anything I say complicates or simplifies your methods. But it seems to me that the Drouin Institute is not the Source - they only filmed it, which in...

... If an unauthorised person really wants to get at our secrets, all he or she needs to do is remove the hard drive from the computer casing and connect it to another machine as an external drive. ... Well, exactly. But that's not really the context of the conversation. The context was the securit...

Sorry Mervyn but in the context of Mick's comment "how many of us have more than one person using the PC?", which clearly implies it's not a public PC, if somebody is switching on my PC who I don't know about, then I'm in a heck of a lot more trouble than worrying about my financial data, ...

Re Labelled Text - yes, I had forgotten about that. I admit that I'm prejudiced against Labelled Text since it looks such an aesthetic disaster, especially when marked off by [[ and ]] to stop it printing. But I do use it (as part of the auto-generated note) in the Attribute that I have for the valu...

Be aware that terminology is, and always has been, different in the Scottish legal system - I think ScotlandsPeople lists the terms. Looking at my Mother's stuff, it was a Will & Testament in 2011. I was certain that they originally covered different things, but: Though it has at times been thou...

... I think our approach is similar and only creating new attributes/events where it is absolutely essential to capturing a persons life story Another useful question might be - "Will I ever want to run a query to find people with this real-life event / attribute?" If not, I can stick it ...

tatewise wrote:... Even then the multiple Roles are reported/shown if you look in the appropriate places ...

OK - so not totally invisible then.

On a technical point, a person can be a Fact Witness in FH for as many Roles in one Fact as you like. Even the Principal can have Roles in their own Fact . i.e. One person can be Executor and also Trustee . However, only the first such entry appears in that person's Facts tab and Narrative Report ....

... Adrian, wouldn't the answer be to have an additional role of "Executor & Trustee"? Err - yes. Simple but effective now you mention it! Might be tricky if you wanted to run a query to list executors because you'd need to remember there were 2 roles, but there's a very long pole tha...