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Non-Person “People”
How to keep track of places, ships and other objects and their relationships with people and
each other
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Custom RolesWhy create a new role?– Apply descriptive labelling to a person’s part in an
event – Control sentences depending on role in the event
Examples– Census relationships– Will beneficiaries, executor/executrix– Death informant
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Custom Tag TypesWhy create a new tag type?– Easily record events that happen reasonably
frequently– Easily find these types of events in Person View or in
reports– Exclude these types of events from reports
Examples:– Census for each year, eg 1841, 1851…– Assisted Immigration– Death of Father/Mother
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Non-Person “People”• TMG is a database that can manage
relationships between objects, ie, people
Marriage relationship
Parent-child relationships
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Non-Person “People”• What if the “people” could be other types of
objects? – Immigrant ships– Convict transports– Towns or villages– Houses or farms– Churches– Religious denominations– Schools– Organisations– What else?
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Non-Person “People”
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Non-Person “People”• Why do it?– Single place to hold all info and sources about
colonies, towns, ships– Can see multiple links, eg. all residents in one
town, or all immigrants on one ship– Show places, ships, etc in Associates window– Can easily exclude from reports and charts by tag
types, roles and flags
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Link a Person to a Place• Create the Place
• Need a new Role in an existing Tag Type– Tag Type – ‘Residence’– Role – ResLink
• Add Residence Tag for Person– Add “Place Person” as witness with role ResLink
• Person now shows up under that Place• Place appears as Associate for that Person
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Link a Person to a Ship• Create the Ship
• Need a new Role in an existing Tag Type– Tag Type – ‘Immigration’ or ‘Immigration Assisted’– Roles
• Ship• Destination
• Add Immigration Tag for Person– Add “Ship” as witness with role Ship– Add “Place” as witness with role Destination
• Person now shows up under that Ship and Place• Ship and Place apper as Associates of that Person
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Link a Marriage to a Church• Create the Church
• Need a new Role in an existing Tag Type– Tag Type – ‘Marriage’– Role – Church / MarrPlace
• In Marriage Tag– Add “Church” as witness with role Church
• Marriage now shows up under that Church• Church appears as Associate of those Persons
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Some Standards• New custom Flag – Type– P = Person (default)– L = Place– S = Ship– Etc
• Name format– Preceded by special character– Name goes in Surname field– Upper and lower case
• Gender is male• Parent always male