Source citations for Occupation

[Bigtree]

When a person has different occupations at different times in their lives, is it possible to attach a source citation to each individual occupation, eg., 1881 census, death certificate etc? When I add citations to occupations, these all appear grouped immediately after the 'occupation' text.

I'd also be grateful if someone could point me in the direction of creating fields (eg., military), which are independent for each person.

Thanks

[Steve W. Jackson]

Originally Posted by Bigtree

When a person has different occupations at different times in their lives, is it possible to attach a source citation to each individual occupation, eg., 1881 census, death certificate etc? When I add citations to occupations, these all appear grouped immediately after the 'occupation' text.

I'd also be grateful if someone could point me in the direction of creating fields (eg., military), which are independent for each person.

Thanks

"Occupation" is a Fact, so you can have multiples of them, just as you could with Degree, Residence, etc. That would allow you to specify one or more source citations for each one, separately from the others.

[dfilpus]

If you put multiple sources on a Fact, then the sources will all clump. If you create multiple instances of the Occupation Fact, then you can attach a source to each Fact. Then you need to work with your charts, reports and family card display to display multiple instances of a particular Fact. Normally, only the first instance of a fact or event will display. Using a smart field will display all instances of a fact.

I use the Occupation Fact to show the person's primary occupation. For somebody with s complicated occupation history, I add an Occupation Note with full information. Sources in Notes can be scattered throughout the Note.

As far as new fields go, "Defining New Fields" in the Manual will help you with that. Reunion has a ton of predefined fields that are not displayed in the default view. Make sure that what you want is not there already. New fields can break the export of your data to Gedcom.

[theKiwi]

Another option is to create/use Occupation events. That way you can attach a date or a date range, AND a place to the Occuption which would go in the Memo field.

And then the different occupations all sort into date order between birth and death and other events.

Roger

[Betty Miessner]

Originally Posted by Bigtree

When a person has different occupations at different times in their lives, is it possible to attach a source citation to each individual occupation, eg., 1881 census, death certificate etc? When I add citations to occupations, these all appear grouped immediately after the 'occupation' text.

I'd also be grateful if someone could point me in the direction of creating fields (eg., military), which are independent for each person.

Thanks

I enter a year after an occupation when there are multiple ones. Source/s added after the entry.
Betty M.
Searching WERNER, BURKE families; country: Ireland (my brick wall)

[mrsruth]

Originally Posted by Steve W. Jackson

"Occupation" is a Fact, so you can have multiples of them, just as you could with Degree, Residence, etc. That would allow you to specify one or more source citations for each one, separately from the others.

Occupation is an EVENT not a FACT because it has dates associated with it. I saw Reunion shows it as Fact but not correct. Facts aren't dated. When I do multiple Occupations, I cite each one with a Source with the citation giving the year (all come from same directory so only change is year). In my Reunion copy, it would show

1999 Lawyer, Smith & Smith (Source 99)
1990 Lawyer, Jones & Griffin (Source 99)

Source 99 = City Directory 1990-1999 by Smith Publishing covering City A, boundaries from east location to west location and north location to south location. Repository: (not used in Reunion) City Public Library Reference section

[Bigtree]

Thanks for the suggestions. Given that Reunion is so intuitive, though, I feel that some of the alternatives seem rather complicated.

In the end I created a Person note field called Occupation and used the the Move command from the Field Preferences to move the data.

This addresses my need to have several occupations listed, each with its own source citation.

Thanks again for the help.