How to record a conversation on the family tree

 A family member (or maybe more as the text conversation continues) has been helping me update her branch of the family tree by text message! Thanks! In the past I have scribbled on some descendant tree print out (or a napkin) and then updated the tree online and sent a copy. This still happens.

Having lost everything with a computer failure, I am starting from scratch. (Yes, I am ignoring familysearch for now. A great many are recent live offspring. Although I have also asked about inlaws I am likely to run into at gatherings. I am keeping the local copy separate as I may try to mangle the local familysearch data.) I have created a new GRAMPS tree for her branch. 

The thing that makes today's effort different is trying to record the source information. Looked at gedcom - Citing a conversation with a living relative - Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange for an idea of how to do this. As suggested I added a repository, Personal Collection, and a Source describing the relevant bits of the conversation. Of course I may introduce mistakes here. Then I am supposed to add citations for the changes in the individuals and families that changed. That is as much work as the updates themselves. It may have been easier if I did the source before the changes so I could cite as I went along.

I also added a source, for a recent family gathering, to my personal collection. It also resulted in me scribbling names on my report. 

Additionally I added Facebook as a repository, as I obtained a spouse' maiden name there. The source was then the user I obtained the information from. 

But did I add the descendant tree on which I was scribbling? Now I have. What about what this is based on? Repository changed to "Karen Paffendorf, Personal Collection of" as I added a family member's collection.

Also pulled in my findagrave info.

The GRAMPS source and citation report is disappointing. The sources were fine. The plethora of citations was useless. I would have liked to have seen the references. Repositories are not reflected in the reports. Here is an article trying to remind me why I am doing this. Documentation in Research - Genealogy.com.

It occurs to me that sources was one of the aspects of GEDCOM that varied from one piece of software to the next. After pulling gedcom from familysearch (see earlier blog), I looked into sources versus citations. I even opened some enhancement requests https://github.com/Linekio/getmyancestors/issues . Afterwords I was reminded that GRAMPS is probably GEDCOM 5.5.1 and familysearch tried to pioneer GEDCOMX.


Next:  

  • What did I base the descendant tree on?
  • pull in info from family search into GRAMPS for the top of this branch
  • Go through family saved posts on Facebook - may have baby pictures.
  • Enter other branches and apply this. (Actually tried another inlaw twig.)
  • gramps books - how do I add footers with author  and date?
  • gramps reports - what would it take to write my own report with repo, source, and refs? add on?


BTW If I want to print on the back of my last report, put the print side down.

Aside: like this places hierarchy. Could easily see who was buried at the same place.

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