Non person people in TMG

Non-Person “People”

How to keep track of places, ships and other objects and their relationships with people and

each other

Custom Roles

Why 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 Types

Why 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



• TMG is a database that can manage relationships between objects, ie, people


Marriage relationship

Parent-child relationships


• 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”• 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 TMG

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