FreeUKGen / MyopicVicar

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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Add new fields for extended burial, baptism & marriage #2737

Open Sandra-AW opened 2 months ago

Sandra-AW commented 2 months ago

Can this field be added in FR so the field can also be added to FreeComETT?

Once the changes are made to the app there will be a number of documentation changes to make:

stsccfr commented 1 month ago

Vino suggested making a single case for all requests to add new fields to the FlexCSV scheme, so I will add some more here, but it might be a good idea to retitle this one appropriately, if that is possible.

I request addition of a field for burial records for consecrated_ground, which is found in cemetery registers and which would have the values of Y, yes, N, no, the latter two implying that the register explicitly says unconsecrated ground.

Also for burial records (specifically cemetery registers) a field called 'parish' which would hold either the parish from which the body was removed (specified in earlier registers) or the parish in which the abode was situated (specified in later registers).

Also, fields to hold alternative names for at least the main people in all event types (the person being baptised, buried or groom or bride). These would allow entering records that say things like:

JONES otherwise SMITH (aliases and adopted names) Joseph alias Timmy (nicknames) JONES formerly SMITH formerly WILLIAMS (for women married multiple times) Helena (Ellen) (for Catholic registers, which always used Latinised forenames)

Also, suffixes for at least the main people in all event types, to hold things like Junior, Senior, Esquire, III, Bart, etc.

Vino-S commented 1 month ago

Occupation for burial record, ready for testing in test3. Estimate of 5 for other changes

stsccfr commented 1 month ago

Vino told me that the new field for occupation in burial records is called 'person_occupation'. I tested this by uploading a file to test3 and it was accepted. However, the new field is not being displayed in search results, so a little more needs to be done before this is fully implemented. (In case it is useful, my test file is called STSCSEBU.CSV and is in account stsccfr on test3. Search for the burial of Enoch Clempson in 1915 and it should show his occupation as Labourer.)

DeniseColbert commented 2 weeks ago

@stsccfr to test if display is correct.

stsccfr commented 2 weeks ago

This is still not working entirely. I repeated my search for the burial of Enoch CLEMPSON in Staffordshire in 1915. The search results page still does not show any Occupation field. If I log into the system as a Coordinator so that I can Browse Entries in the file (STSCSEBU.CSV) then the html table does include a column for Occupation. However, if I click the SH button to show the full record for Enoch Clempson, the Occupation field is not shown.