Non Person People in The Master Genealogist

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


Non-Person “People”• TMG is a database that can manage

relationships between objects, ie, people

Marriage relationship

Parent-child relationships


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?


Non-Person “People”


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


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


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


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


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

Non Person People in The Master Genealogist

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