What Notes Fields Do You Use

[KirkS]

I'm curious what Notes Fields you use in Reunion.

I'm going to assume that most of us use the built-in Misc. Notes. My second-most used note would be Obit where I paste obituaries. Occasionally, I use a Military note and I often use a Research note.

I noticed an example in the User Manual where the user had created a FindAGrave note. That might be a good idea. Perhaps a FamilySearch or WikiTree note for ID Numbers.


What notes do you use for individuals? For families?

[Barry]

Hello Kirk - this may or may not be related to your questions but I'm unable to copy notes from an old Reunion file across into a new file. Can you do this and if so how? Anyone else experiencing this problem. Regards Barry

[Michael Talibard]

When setting this up, I decided that I wanted to see something like a life history with all available info in the one view, so I invented a notes field called 'Dates'. My system is this: with the exception of Birth & Baptism (go first) and of Death and Burial (last) everything to which I can assign a particular date goes into this field. And yes, I have taken the trouble to transcribe census entries (date followed by a colon means census). I attach an example - that of my great grandparents who migrated from Brittany to Jersey.

[eventide]

Great question. I have often wondered how others use note fields. For me I generally use the misc. notes unless I have a problem to solve and then I create a note based on whatever I need to solve that problem - so I might create custom notes if necessary. Ones I use often are probate, census, tax assessment, military and research notes. Recently I found a 2,000 page supreme court case for an ancestor and wanted to extract some information for it - so I created a "supreme court case" notes just for that purpose. So for me it depends on what problem I am trying to solve or what information I need to extract.

[KirkS]

...I invented a notes field called 'Dates'.

I like that, Michael. I like the idea of a chronological timeline. In fact, I often use that format when writing a biographical sketch of an individual. So, it makes perfect sense to put that in a note.

[Kim]

to my family.
The 'Other Family' I use to record extended family of people I don't plan to research any further; maybe the children of a cousin's husband's sister. People I don't really need to know anymore about, but I want to have this information to refer to quickly if I ever suspect they may time in more closely to my family.

[Barry]

Thanks for all this information on notes - very useful. Yes Misc - Notes is what I use. My wife and I were working on two separate files (unwittingly) where she added lots of notes on her research. So I'm now in the progress of trying to sync the information. Groan! Tried importing into dummy new file - failed with too many duplicated and a schmozzel. My next attempt will be to copying her notes into a Word doc and then the labour intensive task of copying them across into one consolidated file. I should live so long! Thanks again. Barry

[BRC2023]

Do all the different note types get exported to the gedcom format?

[Bob White]

Thanks for all this information on notes ............ My next attempt will be to copying her notes into a Word doc and then the labour intensive task of copying them across into one consolidated file. I should live so long! Thanks again. Barry

Why a middle man (Word)? You can have two Reunion files open at the same time.... so just copy from one and paste into the other.

[Barry]

Of dear didn't realise that Bob. Thanks so much. A old friend of mine used to say "you don't have to have long neck to be goose". I've proved him correct again. Thanks again Barry

[KirkS]

"you don't have to have long neck to be goose"

That's a great line.