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    Events vs. Facts

    New to Reunion. I am trying to understand the concept of Event vs. Fact. In the Sample Family Tree just about everything seems to go into Event. Yet, Education is a category that seems to be both an Event and Fact. Is better to think of a Fact as an attribute ? I assume the difference is very important when it comes to reports.

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    Re: Events vs. Facts

    Originally posted by drfiske View Post
    New to Reunion. I am trying to understand the concept of Event vs. Fact. In the Sample Family Tree just about everything seems to go into Event. Yet, Education is a category that seems to be both an Event and Fact. Is better to think of a Fact as an attribute ? I assume the difference is very important when it comes to reports.
    An event has a date associated with it.
    A fact doesn't.

    What you record things as is really personal preference. For example, on Education, you might consider being a Harvard alumnus as a fact, but obtaining a B.A. degree from Harvard in 1953 an event.
    Dennis J. Cunniff
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      Re: Events vs. Facts

      Originally posted by drfiske View Post
      New to Reunion. I am trying to understand the concept of Event vs. Fact. In the Sample Family Tree just about everything seems to go into Event. Yet, Education is a category that seems to be both an Event and Fact. Is better to think of a Fact as an attribute ? I assume the difference is very important when it comes to reports.
      Welcome to the neighborhood, Reunion users tend to be fiercely loyal and generous at the same time. I encourage you to ask questions and dare I say it, learn from the masters?

      As a veteran user of Reunion (10+ years), I tend to go with, “if it has a date attached, it is an event” theory. Things that can be attributed to a person without a date (e.g.: Also Known As) can be recorded as a fact. That said, I agree that education info can fall into that grey area between event and fact. Your example is a good choice in that that when someone graduates from college, that occasion can, and should be, treated as BOTH an event and a fact! The graduation ceremony is the event and the degree is a fact. We as diligent researchers need to record BOTH parts!
      Arnold
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      RESEARCHING: FRIESLAND (Holland); NEW BRUNSWICK (Canada); Maine, NYS & NJ (USA)

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        Re: Events vs. Facts

        Originally posted by drfiske View Post
        New to Reunion. I am trying to understand the concept of Event vs. Fact. In the Sample Family Tree just about everything seems to go into Event. Yet, Education is a category that seems to be both an Event and Fact. Is better to think of a Fact as an attribute ? I assume the difference is very important when it comes to reports.
        As I learned, facts are without date: you have a certain hair colour; you belong to a certain religion by birth, conversion would be an event whereas you were born on a certain date; you graduated on a certain date; you married on a certain date.

        Education - would be an even because there is a time period involved.
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        macRBC
        Reunion user since 2009
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          Re: Events vs. Facts

          I agree; I record education as both an event and a fact.
          Graduation on a date is an event and I add the degree in a note.
          But I also add the degree and college as a fact.

          I do the same with employment.
          If I know the retirement date or dates of employment, they go down as facts. But if an obit only gives occupation and the name of the employer with no date, I record that as a fact.
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