User talk:Andaleen

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Family Group Record Pages

Andaleen: The work you're doing on the site is fantastic! Now that you've had a chance to create / edit several pages, what do you think? Is there anything we can do to make things easier or to explain better?

Keep in mind that we're planning to convert the GEDCOM files over to Family pages in the near future. At this time we're basically testing those pages out to see what format is best, etc.

Thanks again!

Tim, Tdoyle 11:31, 23 January 2006 (CST)

Quick Start Guide

Andaleen:

Although it's still being fleshed out, take a look at the Quick Start Guide that I have created. My thought is that we'd have a link to this guide near the top of the front page, under the title. Feel free to add content to the guide, especially in the 4th page, which needs help.

Thanks!

Tim

Family Pages

Andaleen:

My thinking has changed on these pages since I wrote that note to you. I now think that I am going to make the gedcom information available, but that it will be in a 'read-only' format - no editing there. That would basically be a place to go and look up information and then add it to the family outlines we create. I would encourage you to go forward with working on the family pages as you were, but with a slight twist... see the page Template talk:FamilyTemplate for more information.

Thanks!

- Tim Doyle 07:34, 2 February 2006 (CST)

Family Template Questions

Andaleen:

I've moved your comment from my talk page to the Family Group Record discussion page so Robert can read and respond as well. He's the one that created the template initially, so he'll want to help guide direction as well.

Thanks! Tim Doyle 10:58, 2 February 2006 (CST)

Estate Information

Andaleen:

I agree with you regarding the estate information on the page of Whitney, Isaac (1746-?). What was your source of information for this? Did it come from one of our databases? If so, which one?

Also, as an FYI, I have seen that you have sometimes changed the links to people's pages, such as changing a blank death year to a question mark. If you ever need to do this where the page already exists, do you know how to change the name of an existing page? If not, let me know and I can tell you.

Thanks!

- Tim Doyle 08:56, 13 February 2006 (CST)

Databases

Andaleen:

Something that you might be interested in - I now have the GEDCOM databases somewhat online here on the wiki. Go to Archives - Databases and you'll see three links. These go to John Whitney in each of the databases. Take a look at how I have linked to each of these from this page: Family:Whitney, Moses (1655-?). See the Links section at the bottom? That will allow people to see the database entries from the family outline. To get the specific link to use, I just started from the Archives - Databases page, went to John the immigrant, and drilled down to find the person whose page I was working on. Let me know if this isn't clear.

Thanks!

Tim

Databases, continued

It's 1am and I'm sleepy, so my answers are going to be brief. :-) Yes, I've figured out how to get the databases showing on the site, but no, I don't want you to stop importing. I think there are many benefits to having this data on editable pages on the site. I envision all of this data eventually being moved in here and the gedcoms less important, though perhaps still around. I've started to add links to the various databases from my pages so I can contrast and compare, making sure that the family outline comprises the best of all sources.

Also, I did a lot of work adding detail and source citations to this page: Family:Whitney, Ezra (1731-a1800) - not sure why I'm telling you that other than you might want to look at it as an example.

Regarding the confusion - how did they look different? Have you picked a different skin? Which one?

The links are editable, but the contents on those linked pages are not. I envision some of the links added in there WILL be to editable pages, so I'm not sure about changing the text of those sections. I plan to change the pages in those databases to display additional information - what the database is, who to write to make changes, etc. Would that solve your issues?

Thanks!

Tim

Cousin Marriages

Andaleen:

I agree - we shouldn't have the children in two places. If we had a situation where a man and a woman, both descendants of the Whitney family married, I would put the children under the father so that the surname of the children would mimic the 'head' of the family group's surname.

In this case, we have two females, both descended from Whitneys, whose children married and had a family. In this case, the Whitney descent is 'equal' between the two, so I'd place the children under their father's branch.

I see what you've done by creating a page for both Gilbert and another page for Sarah. For a case like this, I'd delete Sarah's page entirely and just link to her husband's page from the page where she's a child with her parents.

In the places where I am linking from the source documents to the wife of a Whitney, the link is actually to her husband's page, not hers. Think of it as a shared family group page, but its title can only come from one of the people in the marriage, with the following rules to determine which should get the 'title':

1. If both have the surname Whitney, the man gets the page named after himself.
2. If only one spouse has the surname Whitney, they get the page named after themselves, regardless of sex.
3. If neither spouse has the Whitney surname, then the direct Whitney descendant gets the page named after themselves.
4. If neither spouse has the Whitney surname and both are descended from Whitneys, the man gets the page named after himself.

Does that make sense?

- Tim Doyle 23:00, 16 February 2006 (CST)