Genealogy

 I don't really remember tracking this before, but I found a report with cause of death  of a bunch of family. Conceptually, is it limited to cause of death, or should it include other information the doctor might be interested in and be more of a medical history? In the report I found the information was a short phrase. Might it be more detailed?  Technically it became a question of where should this information be entered, and how do I print it off? Attributes SSN Let me revisit the topic of Social Security Death Indexes (SSDI) as a use case. One of the person attributes available was Social Security Number (SSN). Entering this information there seemed obvious. Then came time to report it.  Attributes different than other information associated with people. By default, GRAMPS lists people by name and birth in the main view. An attribute is not something one might add.  Attributes is one of the things that can be displayed in the gramplet on a per person basis....

Came at the attempt to find out when people died from a different angle. Started looking at US social security death indexes (US SSDI) - focussing on free:  https://www.cyndislist.com/us/social-security/how-to/  (yes there is a link to family search here but I am trying to prove they are dead before moving them over.) https://www.cyndislist.com/us/social-security/ssdi/   http://www.donslist.net/PGHLookups/SSDIM.htm   https://stevemorse.org/ssdi/ssdi.html   Generally searched on first name, last name (married), and birth year using birthdate to confirm the correct entry. I took one that was several days off. Some had no entries. Was what I had in error?  Reporting The list I worked from came from GRAMPS>Tools>Utilities>Verify the Data . There were many "Old age but no death" people. I trimmed it down by setting the maximum age to 110, and then 100, ...  In hindsight, I wish, I had printed a list of people with birth dates, and creat...