I've been spending a lot of time preparing for my genealogy do-over (or go-over in my case). I just added a ton of fields to help me post as much information from my sources as I can glean. I also added and changed a lot of GEDCOM tags for export (though I love that I can customize fields and info for narrative reports internally within Reunion!).
The trend with the GEDCOM standard seems to be towards consolidation of tags. No matter, Reunion lets us create standard fields! For example, I kept the land sale and land purchase fields and added a more generic "property" one but changed all of the GEDCOM tags to PROP to standardize them for sharing.
For civil union, I changed the tag to the GEDCOM standard MARC (for marriage contract, which I added) and added the other standard marriage ones missing from the default: Marriage Bann (MARB), Marriage Contract (MARC) and Marriage Settlement (MARS). I added an underscore to _SEPA since separation isn't (yet) a recognized standard one. All non-standard ones need and underscore before them so I scrolled through and added them all--and clicked the "export as even" for most of them just in case the importing program is stupid. Weirdly to me, all of the non-standard source tags in Reunion seem to already have the underscore preceding them.
Reunion has a wealth of "description" fields which kind of overwhelms me, so I consolidated mine to a single "description" field with the standard recognized DSCR GEDCOM tag (the default one is wrong) and got rid of eye color, hair color, race, skin color, and weight.
I added some others that were dropped from GEDCOM standards: Godparent, Legatee, and Witness, but with an underscore. I also added Bondsman and Neighbor with the underscore. Ideally Reunion will be able to link them soon to all other people with the same event for cluster research.
I was misusing ALIA which, as I understand it, is for more formal names and used as a way to link to someone else who might be the same person, not just for other names of the same person. I added the standard nickname (NICK) for those. I also added ROLE, FACT (for more generic misc ones), caste (CAST: The name of an individual's rank or status in society, based on racial or religious differences, or differences in wealth, inherited rank, profession, occupation, etc.), etc.
For The Beyond Kin Project, I added Enslaved Person (EP) and Slave Holder too.
I added a _DNA note and fact.
This way I get the beauty of Reunion custom fields and easier narrative reports with the better sharing of info with others not using Reunion.
Hopefully I have everything set now to go forward with the go-over, and hopefully this might help someone else too.
The trend with the GEDCOM standard seems to be towards consolidation of tags. No matter, Reunion lets us create standard fields! For example, I kept the land sale and land purchase fields and added a more generic "property" one but changed all of the GEDCOM tags to PROP to standardize them for sharing.
For civil union, I changed the tag to the GEDCOM standard MARC (for marriage contract, which I added) and added the other standard marriage ones missing from the default: Marriage Bann (MARB), Marriage Contract (MARC) and Marriage Settlement (MARS). I added an underscore to _SEPA since separation isn't (yet) a recognized standard one. All non-standard ones need and underscore before them so I scrolled through and added them all--and clicked the "export as even" for most of them just in case the importing program is stupid. Weirdly to me, all of the non-standard source tags in Reunion seem to already have the underscore preceding them.
Reunion has a wealth of "description" fields which kind of overwhelms me, so I consolidated mine to a single "description" field with the standard recognized DSCR GEDCOM tag (the default one is wrong) and got rid of eye color, hair color, race, skin color, and weight.
I added some others that were dropped from GEDCOM standards: Godparent, Legatee, and Witness, but with an underscore. I also added Bondsman and Neighbor with the underscore. Ideally Reunion will be able to link them soon to all other people with the same event for cluster research.
I was misusing ALIA which, as I understand it, is for more formal names and used as a way to link to someone else who might be the same person, not just for other names of the same person. I added the standard nickname (NICK) for those. I also added ROLE, FACT (for more generic misc ones), caste (CAST: The name of an individual's rank or status in society, based on racial or religious differences, or differences in wealth, inherited rank, profession, occupation, etc.), etc.
For The Beyond Kin Project, I added Enslaved Person (EP) and Slave Holder too.
I added a _DNA note and fact.
This way I get the beauty of Reunion custom fields and easier narrative reports with the better sharing of info with others not using Reunion.
Hopefully I have everything set now to go forward with the go-over, and hopefully this might help someone else too.
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