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MyopicVicar (short-sighted clergyman!) is an open-source genealogy record database and search engine. It powers the FreeREG database of parish registers, the FreeCEN database of census records, the next version of FreeBMD database of Civil Registration indexes and other Genealogical applications.
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Improve Help for Transcribers Pages - relationships #2457

Open edickens opened 3 years ago

edickens commented 3 years ago

Michael Clarke wrote:-

There seems to be a lot of confusion within the Transcribers group regarding various fields, especially with the restrictions of WinREG.

I am thinking especially of Relationship. In my mind "servant of", servant to", "apprentice to" etc. are also relationships, although not familial. Also "gramdfather", "grandson", "uncle", "brother-in-law", "son-in-law", "stepson" etc are all familial relationships. None of these are in standard WinREG but can be added.

Maybe FreeREG Help needs to state that these are ALL valid relationships for Flexible CSV use.

It might also be of use to state which fields are indexed, and thus searchable, and those which are just informational (eq Abode, Notes, Occupation, Relationship etc/).

I personally have a rule that EVERY name in a register entry gets transcribed into a searchable field, even if this requires several transcribed records (thinking of witnesses) to do this. The names ARE important and should not be hidden only in Notes.

edickens commented 3 years ago

This seems a very reasonable request. There has been a lot of traffic in the Transcribers Mailgroup these last few days on this subject as there is some confusion.

So the Felxible CSV fields need to be marked in the Help:-

I could mark up some of the fields but Vino would need to say which are searchable.

PatReynolds commented 3 years ago

Maybe the last one should be "This field is shown to researchers, but is not indexed, and cannot be searched" Also need to add "This field is not validated"

PatReynolds commented 3 years ago

We only index searchable fields.

@edickens to let transcribers and coordinators know where a picklist is just to make it easier to transcribe, not used prescriptively.

@Irene-ene to add to UniTT project definition document