Burial Plot

[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 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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.