Genealogy

 Yesterday I noticed a facebook post in Thomas' Genealogy Treehouse. It mentioned a new familysearch collection. In the thread was mention to the original database outside familysearch. Down the garden path I go. As I come up for again I wonder when this came into being and how it compared to previous stuff. I still start at Cyndi's list, despite the familysearch wiki. https://www.cyndislist.com/us/social-security/ssdi/ still mentions Stephen P Morse, https://stevemorse.org/, and there it is NUMIDENT, https://aad.archives.gov/.   Started with a search on the family name Drilling down into death records, I had already gleaned that information, but I found starting a general search easier. Going down into applications instead, I cherry picked, to find  found the parents of a wife that I did not know the maiden name of. Clearly there is more on that page and other lines on the first page to drill down into. I used google docs to author my working report with l...

 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....