mroddyn3 0 Report post Posted June 3, 2006 Hi, When I look at the timeline for a person, I would really like the timeline to automatically show the death if a person's child, spouse or parent. I think it is helpful to see that a person's mother died when they were 12, or that a person's wife died when they were 40 and they lived to be 80 and didn't remarry. Is there any way to automatically get the program to put in these tags, or is the only way to make it work is to put a spouse, parent or child as a witness to the death event of someone else? Thanks for your help. Mary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carolyn 0 Report post Posted June 3, 2006 Hi,When I look at the timeline for a person, I would really like the timeline to automatically show the death if a person's child, spouse or parent. I think it is helpful to see that a person's mother died when they were 12, or that a person's wife died when they were 40 and they lived to be 80 and didn't remarry. Is there any way to automatically get the program to put in these tags, or is the only way to make it work is to put a spouse, parent or child as a witness to the death event of someone else? Thanks for your help. Mary I use roles for just this purpose. In the Death tag, my primary role is "Deceased" and the sentence is: [:CR:][:TAB:][RG:Deceased] died <[D]> < in [L]> <[A]> <, leaving [RG:Widow] a widow.> -- or [:CR:][:TAB:][RG:Deceased] died <[D]> < i n [L]> <[A]> <, leaving [RG:Widower] a widower.> I have 3 other roles: Widow, Widower and Quaker. I put the living spouse in as witness to the death, using widow, or widower. The Quaker is so that I can use the proper dating procedure: [:CR:][:TAB:][RG:Quaker] died <[M1]>< in [L]> <[A]> <, leaving [RG:Widow] a widow.> M1 being the Quaker date (ie: 3.1m.1720) (I use the normal date in it's usual place but it doesn't print.) I hadn't thought of the children but you have a very good point. It would be easy to add a role of "orphan" and add them to the witnesses. Carol Collins Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GenerationGoneBy 0 Report post Posted June 3, 2006 I have roles called: Widow Widower Death of Father Death of Mother Death of M-Grandfather Death of M-Grandmother Death of P-Grandfather Death of P-Grandmother etc. Death of Daughter Death of Son This way I can see in a person's PV when a relative died. Often times this helps when working with probate records and it makes me aware that a person may have been in grief when making a decision. This will explain why they made that decison, like moving 500 miles away from family. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Virginia Blakelock 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2006 Another option is a custom tag. For persons of special interest, particularly when the death was likely to impact later events, I attach a tag 'FamilyDeath' with the circumstances of the death in the memo. Virginia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Judy 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2006 I put the spouse and children in the death tag as witnesses. Judy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites