Informations couramment rencontrées

Cet article décrit les informations couramment rencontrées dans PGV: champs et structures, qui sont utilisés pour créer la plupart des Faits et détails personnels concernant un individu ou une famille.

Type (TYPE)

Le Type définit une catégorie pour les faits et les événements. Il est obligatoire lorsque l'on utilise les balises génériques FACT ou EVEN, et utile dans d'autres cas. En général la balise Type n'est pas structurée, et le texte que vous y placez dépend du contexte, par exemple le mariage peut être de type religieux ou civil, etc. Quelques types courants sont prédéfinis et vous sont présentés en tant que choix possibles.

Date (DATE)

Les Dates doivent être entrées en Anglais, même si elles sont affichées dans d'autres langues, par exemple 12 Jan 1824. L'interface utilisateur fournit une aide en affichant un calendrier qui vous aidera à entrer le bon format de la date, ainsi si vous entrez par exemple 2/17/2003 ou 17.2.2003, la date sera transformée en 12 FEB 2003. Le champ Date tolère les points pour l'heure et les intervalles, ainsi que les dates approximatives. Lisez l'article Dates pour plus de détails.

Time (TIME)

Time complements date when important, for example when describing the Birth event. Enter time as hh:mm:ss, for example 14:24:15, using 24 hour clock (military time in the US). You can skip seconds and/or minutes, if unknown.

Place (PLACE)

The convention requires that places are entered with fulll details, including the city or village, county, state or other higher level division, and country. This convention not only helps identify the place on a map, but is also used by PGV for some useful things like providing a hierarchy of places, displaying locations on Google maps and more. Read about the places in a separate article on Place data.

Address (ADDR)

The Address sctructure is used wherever the address information is relevant, for example in describing place of birth, marriage, education, etc. Enter the address just like it would appear on a mailing label, using multiple lines. There is another, structured form of Address, with fields for City, State, Code etc, which will be displayed by PGV if found in Gedcom. Address is also part of a Residence (RESI) fact for individual and family; it is recomended that the Residence fact is used to note the personal/family address information. The Address structure has also tags to indicate phone, fax, www and email address. PGV is flexible in reading the data, and it will also display the address, phone, email etc. if attached to individual directly (not in Residence structure).

Agency (AGNC)

Agency is used wherever an institution is mentioned in describing a fact ot event. It can be a school or university for an Education fact, the employer for Occupation fact, etc.

Associate (ASSO)

Associate is a person performing a role in the described event. It can be a priest, witness, best man, godmother, friend, etc., and may be part of the family or not. Keeping with Gedcom structure, this person has her/his own record, and it is only mentioned as associate (with corresponding role) by the event. In order to be so referenced the person must already exist in the database. Adding an unlinked person comes handy here (you need Admin privileges to do it) if the Associate is not part of the family.

Source Citation (SOUR)

If possible, you should always quote the source of the information. The Source Citation structure helps you find and existing Source record or create one, and add details for this citation, including citation details (page in the surce), relevant text and even a Media Object. For details see article on Proper use of sources.

Note (NOTE)

Can be attached to virtually anything - a place to add notes and comments related to the item in question (person, fact, object, etc.).

Multimedia Object (OBJE)

Media enliven and illustrate your family tree. You can create a new Media Object or make a reference to an existing one. See Adding / Editing Media for details.

Restriction (RESN)

In addition to PGV global privacy settings, you can set restrictions on each event adn fact, preventing others from editing or seeing the event. See Setting a Restriction for details.