Where does Cause of Death belong?

 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. It is not displayed in many reports.

At the very least lets get a list of people and theirs SSNs.
  1. Navigate to people
  2. Create a filter > General > person with a personal attribute > 
  3. Select attribute from a drop down list  (how do you add a customized one?)
  4. set the value.
  5. hit ok  (was there more to save? totally missed naming it.)
  6. select the filter and hit find
  7. Go to the gramplet and select attributes  
  8. go to the SSN line and double click to get a quickview with names and SSNs
  9. click on a record to highlight it, right mouse to select all, copy....  (no print option)
It seems I'd have to code or maybe look for an addon if I actually want to include birth and death.

So what would it take to add a custom attribute?

_FSFTID


When I downloaded information from familysearch a new attribute was added. It does show up in the attribute pulldown. Is it preceded by an underscore for globalization? Does it show up in any reports

Events:


It seems that GEDCOM supports a decorator. http According to s://www.tamurajones.net/GEDCOM551AnnotatedEdition.xhtml

EVENT_DETAIL := ... n CAUS <CAUSE_OF_EVENT> ... 

CAUSE_OF_EVENT:= {Size=1:90}

Used in special cases to record the reasons which precipitated an event. Normally this will be used subordinate to a death event to show cause of death, such as might be listed on a death certificate.  

However GRAMPS has gone their own way with a special event type (probably making it non-portable).

Logistics:


I feel like I had more for the event but apparently it is pumpkin time. Night all.

BTW I made a mistake trying to edit the blog live. First it ate some of my typing. Second it is a good idea for me to sleep on it and make tweaks (_FSFTID) before posting.

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