Burial Plot

[Frank Zwolinski]

I would just like to know where others include any information on the specific burial plot/location/grave number, etc. in an individual's record?
I appreciate all ideas.
Thank you,
Frank

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Burial Plot

I would just like to know where others include any information on the specific burial plot/location/grave number, etc. in an individual's record?
I appreciate all ideas.
Thank you,
Frank

Hi Frank, I use the memo field for the Type-Burial. See attached clips

[Frank Zwolinski]

Re: Burial Plot

Kaye,
Thanks--you always have good ideas. I will wait to see what others do as well, before entering.
Thanks,
Frank

[alan]

Re: Burial Plot

Hi Frank,

I'm like Kaye in that I use the "burial"entry to add place and burial plot, if known.
I seldom use the "memo" field in Burial mainly because I tend to keep a smaller edit page open and in doing so wouldn't see whats entered.


Alan

[Ray Farm]

Re: Burial Plot

I would just like to know where others include any information on the specific burial plot/location/grave number, etc. in an individual's record?
I appreciate all ideas.
Thank you,
Frank

Frank, what I do is enter that information in one of two places:
1)Under the Events tab, under Burial event, in the Memo field
2)or the Facts tab, under Cemetery fact, right after the name of the cemetery, in parentheses

[B Jansen]

Re: Burial Plot

I put that information in the memo field of the burial line under events too.

[sue royce]

Re: Burial Plot

I would just like to know where others include any information on the specific burial plot/location/grave number, etc. in an individual's record?
I appreciate all ideas.
Thank you,
Frank

Hi Frank

I made the terrible mistake of using what to me was logic and putting them in the source details field. My logic was 'same place, different 'page' so to speak.

I figured that I could then print out a list of 'name, source and source detail' to take with me to the cemetery. Copy to excel, sort in order etc etc. Seemed a great idea - until, thousands of records later, I discovered that no, you can't do that - or rather you can, eventually, but in such a complex 'not in the manual' way that I was tearing my hair out.

I have requested the ability to do this - ie have 'source detail' available as a column heading when doing a 'find' - but nothing yet.

As I said, seems logical to me to want to be able to have a single source for the master record - eg a book; then the different page numbers in the details column which you can then list and order. Instead, you have to either have a different source for each 'page' - or as has been suggested, put the page number in the memo field.

[sdengle]

Re: Burial Plot

I would just like to know where others include any information on the specific burial plot/location/grave number, etc. in an individual's record?
I appreciate all ideas.
Thank you,
Frank

Since Reunion 7, I have used the Memo fields for Events on my Mac, but I used to add only minimal information in the Memo fields. I also added several Notes fields on the Person card, such as Marriage - for news clippings describing the bride, or details of the wedding; Obituary - for quoting printed obituaries; Census - for my transcriptions; etc. (You can add a note field for Burial if you wish.)

I have had Reunion on my iPod Touch for four years, and a couple years ago I began to enter more information in the Memo for Events, often including full source information along with specific details - the Events are very easy to locate and read on my iPod!

I have always used the original Notes field for just about anything as I find it: information found in on-line sources (especially HeritageQuest - census data; FamilySearch.org original sources; Find A Grave, etc.). Also: scanned family documents, family stories, information gained from interviews or family reunion, and more.

The short answer? Add any bits of information wherever it seems most useful to you!

Susan D. Engle
mid-2010 MacBook Pro 13" - OS 10.9.4 Mavericks - Reunion 10.0.6.

[Frank Zwolinski]

Re: Burial Plot

Thank you all for the comments!! Great ideas, all of them. The more I use Reunion and this list the more ideas help me refine what I do.

However, being OLD (I guess) I just found that one of the possible notes for the "Notes" tab is "Grave Site Description" which seems like a perfect fit for me.

But keep it coming folks, I love to have all these differences of opinion.

Thank you all,
Frank

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Burial Plot

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However, being OLD (I guess) I just found that one of the possible notes for the "Notes" tab is "Grave Site Description" which seems like a perfect fit for me.

You must have added that Note Type at one time. I don't have it in my list! Glad you have found a solution that works for you! I love how flexible Reunion is, in many ways.

[Frank Zwolinski]

Re: Burial Plot

Kaye,
NOW you are making me feel old, and perhaps a bit senile, as I have no recollection of adding a term like that. I do not have any people using that particular note. But who knows?

Yes, Reunion is a marvel!!
Thanks,
Frank

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Burial Plot

Kaye,
NOW you are making me feel old, and perhaps a bit senile, as I have no recollection of adding a term like that. I do not have any people using that particular note. But who knows?

Yes, Reunion is a marvel!!
Thanks,
Frank

Sorry, Frank! :}

[A Ginn]

Re: Burial Plot

Hi,

I use a version of the "final address" method that someone else also mentioned in an earlier discussion. The lot, section, row, grave number, or whatever combination of these is appropriate to the particular cemetery are used as though they were an address. For example, the burial place field might have "S1L17 Woodland, Keene, NH" or 2647 Laurel Hill, Woodlawn, Everett, MA".

This allows me to assign the exact GPS coordinates to the graves and have Reunion map each one accurately. Otherwise, with just the cemetery name and address, the mapping function stacks everyone up by the front gate.

Alan

[Gato]

Re: Burial Plot : General Sources and Automatic Sources

Hi Frank

I made the terrible mistake of using what to me was logic and putting them in the source details field. My logic was 'same place, different 'page' so to speak.

I figured that I could then print out a list of 'name, source and source detail' to take with me to the cemetery. Copy to excel, sort in order etc etc. Seemed a great idea - until, thousands of records later, I discovered that no, you can't do that - or rather you can, eventually, but in such a complex 'not in the manual' way that I was tearing my hair out.

I have requested the ability to do this - ie have 'source detail' available as a column heading when doing a 'find' - but nothing yet.

As I said, seems logical to me to want to be able to have a single source for the master record - eg a book; then the different page numbers in the details column which you can then list and order. Instead, you have to either have a different source for each 'page' - or as has been suggested, put the page number in the memo field.

I've come into this conversation tangentially, through Sue's comment about sources attracting my attention, so my apologies if I miss the main point.

Extraordinary flexibility and power for handling sources is one of the greatest strengths of Reunion 10, in my opinion.

If I correctly understand Sue's concerns, I think they might be fully addressed by Reunion's existing automatic and general source features. See the Reunion Help topic, 'General Sources and Automatic Sources'.

Regards,

Gato

[AE Palmer]

Re: Burial Plot

I would just like to know where others include any information on the specific burial plot/location/grave number, etc. in an individual's record?
I appreciate all ideas.
Thank you,
Frank

Being a geographer both at heart and schooling, I prefer to include the burial information as part of the address. After all it is an address just like any other -- the only difference is that it is more detailed than most.

Example: Plot 10, Section H, Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York.

More to the point, entering the data this way allows for accurate searches when looking for individual cemeteries!