Entering multiple degrees

[gdv]

How do I enter multiple degrees for an individual? Two undergraduate degrees and 2 post graduate degrees, all from different institutions. When I add more facts for graduate, degree or education, the first degree I enter populates all of the fields with the same classification. Would appreciate any thoughts or ideas.

Thanks you.

GDV

[Dennis J. Cunniff]

Not sure how you are trying to do this. I've used one education field per school or degree:

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[theKiwi]

I would just add that you should consider degrees to be events, not facts, since it's something that happened at a particular place at a particular time.

But yes, you can use multiple instances of the same event type to get multiple things listed

Roger

[gdv]

Thanks for your response, Dennis. When I add a second education field and then complete the first education field, what I typed in the first education field also appears in the second field. I am obviously doing something wrong as I receive double entries instead of different entries for each school.

GDV

[gdv]

I will try adding as events and see if that works. Thanks for your help and assistance. GDV

[Gregg]

When I add a second education field and then complete the first education field, what I typed in the first education field also appears in the second field...

If your main concern is what is appearing on the family view under the source couple, then you should select a "Smart List" field in the Family View Preferences rather than multiple instances of the same fact or event.

[Amy]

When I add a second education field and then complete the first education field, what I typed in the first education field also appears in the second field. I am obviously doing something wrong as I receive double entries instead of different entries for each school.

GDV

I use multiple events and facts often and don't have a problem with them having the wrong information. Here's how I enter them:

In family view, click on the name of the person you're entering data for.
On the person's card, click on Events to display the events for the person.
Underneath the list of events, click the Add Event button.
Select the event you want to add, then click Add Event.
In the new empty event field, type in the details.

[gdv]

Thanks to all who responded. With your advice I was able to solve the issue and also set up a smart list. Your help and assistance is greatly appreciated!

GDV

[kyuck]

I would just add that you should consider degrees to be events, not facts, since it's something that happened at a particular place at a particular time.

But yes, you can use multiple instances of the same event type to get multiple things listed

Roger

If a person had many occupations, would you then consider them Events instead of Facts? (and any other "Fact" of which I had multiples?}

[theKiwi]

If a person had many occupations, would you then consider them Events instead of Facts? (and any other "Fact" of which I had multiples?}

Yes - I consider anything that has a time/date range and a place to be an event. So education, occupation, residence/census are events. Eye colour is a fact.

Roger

[Reiner L. Sauer]

Yes - I consider anything that has a time/date range and a place to be an event. So education, occupation, residence/census are events. Eye colour is a fact.

Roger

Roger,
As a standard, Reunion uses a fact field for occupation. I think, that there are good reasons for this.
Somehow, there's a problem with properly reflecting an occupation in an events field.
The following input is possible:
a) Date Field: (from - To), Place field: (Acme Iron Works, Chicago, Illinois, USA), Memo: Smelter; referred to by his cousin John
b) Date Field: (from - To), Place field: Smelter at Acme Iron Works, Chicago, Illinois, USA Memo: Smelter; referred to by his cousin John
What is the right input method? Somehow, there's a field missing, when using the "events"-method.
Additionally, I can't figure out an appropriate "narrative form" (field preferences).
How do you deal with this?
Regards
Reiner

[theKiwi]

Reiner - I don't use Reunion for any output, so I don't really think about how Reunion might output it in a narrative.

What field do you think is missing? An event captures the when, where, and a memo that can say what the occupation was. What is missing?

But it seems clear to me that there is more information to capture about an occupation than just the "fact" that someone was a school teacher. You can capture the "when" and the "where" about each time period at a different school (if between you and your siblings you can figure out all the places Mum worked LOL).

Roger

[Reiner L. Sauer]

Reiner - I don't use Reunion for any output, so I don't really think about how Reunion might output it in a narrative.

What field do you think is missing? An event captures the when, where, and a memo that can say what the occupation was. What is missing?

But it seems clear to me that there is more information to capture about an occupation than just the "fact" that someone was a school teacher. You can capture the "when" and the "where" about each time period at a different school (if between you and your siblings you can figure out all the places Mum worked LOL).

Roger

Roger,
Whenever, I enter data, I immediately think about how it will appear in the output (report).
Ideally, the structure should be
- for occupation 1) date, 2) location 3) profession, and 4) memo, or
- for eduction 1) date, 2) location 3) name of school or uni, and 4) memo.
This would allow e.g. the data to be sorted by "profession" or "school".
I understand very well that this would conflict with GEDCOM.
Btw, the use of floating field tags (delimiters) is a method to include the above in a "fact" field.

Reiner

[Charles Bourland]

In my opinion genealogy is to pass on down the line a biography as far as can be determined of each ancestor. Thus, while I accept we all have our idea of this charge, I think every find should not be a Fact, but a paragraph posted in time sequence. So, "Henry was awarded his degree in History from Aloha University in 1956. He was at the time living at 234 River Street in San Francisco."

A listing of facts is to me is boring. A writing or composition brings the individual to life.