Burial Plot

[jbastin]

Re: Burial Plot

***NOTE***Sometimes the memorial page URL is very long. You can get a shorter URL by getting to the memorial page from elsewhere...you have to experiment. If the memorial is already linked to another memorial, click on that link and, then, click on the link to get back to the original memorial. The URL should be shorter. Or, if you have just added the memorial, you will have the short URL and can click & drag it to your notes section. The URL on my sample is the shortest you can get.

Getting the short URL is simpler than that. If you're looking at a memorial on Find A Grave that has a very long URL, just click on the "Photos" tab in the memorial window. Then click back on the "Memorial" tab. You will have the shortest possible link, easy to copy and paste if desired.

Hope this helps.

[dawn94]

Re: Burial Plot

Memo field for me too. I tend to (try) to keep my Notes chronological, so if there's a bunch more details I feel I need to record, I add it to the area where I put that they died.

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Burial Plot

If a new field is contemplated, may I suggest a link to Find a Grave website where photos are posted? I'm a Volunteer Photographer for them and have several of my own I'd like to link within Reunion, if I could.

I use the Misc. Notes section for my Find A Grave links and info. It's always 1) in the notes (basically, a mini log). If there is no FAG link yet and there are other notes needed for other things, I start with 2) for the other things.

Attached is a sample entry. Notice the live link embedded. Once I enter the regular FAG info and memorial #, I click & drag the URL from the memorial page to the notes. Then, highlight the URL, place your cursor over the highlighted URL, right click and choose "Make link". Then, when I open the notes section & click on the link, it brings up the memorial in a separate window.

***NOTE***Sometimes the memorial page URL is very long. You can get a shorter URL by getting to the memorial page from elsewhere...you have to experiment. If the memorial is already linked to another memorial, click on that link and, then, click on the link to get back to the original memorial. The URL should be shorter. Or, if you have just added the memorial, you will have the short URL and can click & drag it to your notes section. The URL on my sample is the shortest you can get.

Hope this helps.

[sue royce]

Re: Burial Plot : General Sources and Automatic Sources

I've come into this conversation tangentially, through Sue's comment about sources attracting my attention, so my apologies if I miss the main point.

Extraordinary flexibility and power for handling sources is one of the greatest strengths of Reunion 10, in my opinion.

If I correctly understand Sue's concerns, I think they might be fully addressed by Reunion's existing automatic and general source features. See the Reunion Help topic, 'General Sources and Automatic Sources'.

Regards,

Gato

Gato

I would love to get more information about 'fully addressed' as I have spent many many hours on this and cannot see what you mean.
Sue

[pforbes]

Re: Burial Plot

If a new field is contemplated, may I suggest a link to Find a Grave website where photos are posted? I'm a Volunteer Photographer for them and have several of my own I'd like to link within Reunion, if I could.

[AE Palmer]

Re: Burial Plot

I put the city, county and state in the place section and then the cemetery name and plot number in the memo line. I do want to start using a GPS and add that information. I would like to be able to do a cemetery search under memo.

Like you, I started out putting the cemetery data in the memo field, but found it to be very cumbersome. The search engine does not play nice with memo and citation detail fields and thus renders searches using those fields largely ineffective.

The PLACE field, on the other hand, is wide open and can handle long strings of data very well. (I have several instances well over 100 characters long with NO problems whatsoever.) Furthermore, the search engine is flawless when dealing with cemetery data in the PLACE field. Simply put, it works everytime! Besides, Reunion groups locations very neatly - a search for PLACE contains "Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse" yields a complete list all individuals buried in that cemetery.

As for using GPS data, it is your choice -- you certainly do NOT have to enter it even if the cemetery data is in the PLACE field.

[Nancy G Chesnutt]

Re: Burial Plot

Being a geographer both at heart and schooling, I prefer to include the burial information as part of the address. After all it is an address just like any other -- the only difference is that it is more detailed than most.

Example: Plot 10, Section H, Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York.

More to the point, entering the data this way allows for accurate searches when looking for individual cemeteries!

I put the city, county and state in the place section and then the cemetery name and plot number in the memo line. I do want to start using a GPS and add that information. I would like to be able to do a cemetery search under memo.

[AE Palmer]

Re: Burial Plot

I would just like to know where others include any information on the specific burial plot/location/grave number, etc. in an individual's record?
I appreciate all ideas.
Thank you,
Frank

Being a geographer both at heart and schooling, I prefer to include the burial information as part of the address. After all it is an address just like any other -- the only difference is that it is more detailed than most.

Example: Plot 10, Section H, Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York.

More to the point, entering the data this way allows for accurate searches when looking for individual cemeteries!

[Gato]

Re: Burial Plot : General Sources and Automatic Sources

Hi Frank

I made the terrible mistake of using what to me was logic and putting them in the source details field. My logic was 'same place, different 'page' so to speak.

I figured that I could then print out a list of 'name, source and source detail' to take with me to the cemetery. Copy to excel, sort in order etc etc. Seemed a great idea - until, thousands of records later, I discovered that no, you can't do that - or rather you can, eventually, but in such a complex 'not in the manual' way that I was tearing my hair out.

I have requested the ability to do this - ie have 'source detail' available as a column heading when doing a 'find' - but nothing yet.

As I said, seems logical to me to want to be able to have a single source for the master record - eg a book; then the different page numbers in the details column which you can then list and order. Instead, you have to either have a different source for each 'page' - or as has been suggested, put the page number in the memo field.

I've come into this conversation tangentially, through Sue's comment about sources attracting my attention, so my apologies if I miss the main point.

Extraordinary flexibility and power for handling sources is one of the greatest strengths of Reunion 10, in my opinion.

If I correctly understand Sue's concerns, I think they might be fully addressed by Reunion's existing automatic and general source features. See the Reunion Help topic, 'General Sources and Automatic Sources'.

Regards,

Gato

[A Ginn]

Re: Burial Plot

Hi,

I use a version of the "final address" method that someone else also mentioned in an earlier discussion. The lot, section, row, grave number, or whatever combination of these is appropriate to the particular cemetery are used as though they were an address. For example, the burial place field might have "S1L17 Woodland, Keene, NH" or 2647 Laurel Hill, Woodlawn, Everett, MA".

This allows me to assign the exact GPS coordinates to the graves and have Reunion map each one accurately. Otherwise, with just the cemetery name and address, the mapping function stacks everyone up by the front gate.

Alan

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Burial Plot

Kaye,
NOW you are making me feel old, and perhaps a bit senile, as I have no recollection of adding a term like that. I do not have any people using that particular note. But who knows?

Yes, Reunion is a marvel!!
Thanks,
Frank

Sorry, Frank! :}

[Frank Zwolinski]

Re: Burial Plot

Kaye,
NOW you are making me feel old, and perhaps a bit senile, as I have no recollection of adding a term like that. I do not have any people using that particular note. But who knows?

Yes, Reunion is a marvel!!
Thanks,
Frank

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Burial Plot

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However, being OLD (I guess) I just found that one of the possible notes for the "Notes" tab is "Grave Site Description" which seems like a perfect fit for me.

You must have added that Note Type at one time. I don't have it in my list! Glad you have found a solution that works for you! I love how flexible Reunion is, in many ways.

[Frank Zwolinski]

Re: Burial Plot

Thank you all for the comments!! Great ideas, all of them. The more I use Reunion and this list the more ideas help me refine what I do.

However, being OLD (I guess) I just found that one of the possible notes for the "Notes" tab is "Grave Site Description" which seems like a perfect fit for me.

But keep it coming folks, I love to have all these differences of opinion.

Thank you all,
Frank

[sdengle]

Re: Burial Plot

I would just like to know where others include any information on the specific burial plot/location/grave number, etc. in an individual's record?
I appreciate all ideas.
Thank you,
Frank

Since Reunion 7, I have used the Memo fields for Events on my Mac, but I used to add only minimal information in the Memo fields. I also added several Notes fields on the Person card, such as Marriage - for news clippings describing the bride, or details of the wedding; Obituary - for quoting printed obituaries; Census - for my transcriptions; etc. (You can add a note field for Burial if you wish.)

I have had Reunion on my iPod Touch for four years, and a couple years ago I began to enter more information in the Memo for Events, often including full source information along with specific details - the Events are very easy to locate and read on my iPod!

I have always used the original Notes field for just about anything as I find it: information found in on-line sources (especially HeritageQuest - census data; FamilySearch.org original sources; Find A Grave, etc.). Also: scanned family documents, family stories, information gained from interviews or family reunion, and more.

The short answer? Add any bits of information wherever it seems most useful to you!

Susan D. Engle
mid-2010 MacBook Pro 13" - OS 10.9.4 Mavericks - Reunion 10.0.6.