Alternative Profile Display

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Use this page to suggest upgrades to the profile narrative that results from GEDCOM uploads. For comparison here's a profile page of the current display format: Andreas Jauch. Use this G2G topic for discussion.

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Contents 1 Fields Generated 2 Biography 2.1 Events 2.2 Facts 2.3 Notes 3 Family 4 Other Imported Data 5 Sources 5.1 Footnotes (or Endnotes or Citations) 5.2 Bibliography (or Authorities or References) 6 Acknowledgements

Fields Generated

Chris has elsewhere suggested that this section cannot be changed without significant re-programming of wikitree.

[First Name] [Middle Name] [Last Name]

Born [Date] in [Place]

Son/Daughter of [FatherName] and [MotherName]

Brother/Sister of [SiblingName1], [SiblingName2], etc.

Husband/Wife of [SpouseName] -- married [MarriageDate] in [MarriagePlace]

Father/Mother of [ChildName1], [ChildName2], etc.

Died [DeathDate] in [DeathPlace]

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Profile manager info, when last changed, how many times accessed, etc.

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Narrative

The following is a suggested re-design of the narrative generated by uploaded GEDCOMs. When sources are included in the GEDCOM, they are footnoted and placed in the <ref>....</ref> ... <references /> space. (I argue below for a revised footnote display.)

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Biography

This section would start with Event fields (those with dates) and present them chronologically. If a GEDCOM field is empty, there would be no display of that field.

Events

The following refers to INDIVIDUAL (not FAMILY) Events.

Birth: [BirthDate], [BirthPlace] <ref> [BirthSource], [SourceDate], [SourcePage] <small><blockquote> [SourceText] </blockquote></small></ref>

Notes: [BirthMemo] <-- This would capture the contents of memo fields that are associated with each event or fact type. Not all software programs have this, but more recent programs do; i.e., they have three fields associated with a fact/event: date, place, memo; these should all be grouped together. If the relevant Memo field is empty, nothing would be displayed.

Christening: [ChrDate], [ChrPlace] ^[1]

Notes: [ChrMemo]

etc...

Facts

Following a chronological list of Event fields would be an alpha list of Fact fields (those GEDCOM fields without dates). If a GEDCOM field is empty, there would be no display of that field.

Education: [EDUC]

Note: [FactMemo]<-- If the relevant Memo field is empty, nothing would be displayed. (Currently Wikitree adds the name of the Fact type into empty Memo fields.)

Occupation: [OCCU]

Note: [FactMemo]

Religion: [RELI]

Note: [FactMemo]

etc.

Notes

Following Facts would be any narrative included in the INDIVIDUAL's Notes field. Currently, Wikitree adds a "Note" entry in the long list of fields, with an internal link to a numbered Note, e.g., "#N2642" which is pasted near the bottom of the narrative. Instead, simply place the Note field contents in its own section here.

[IndividualNotesFieldContents] (do not put in nonexistent line breaks)

Family

The current display of this information is, IMHO, pretty whacky; it concatenates spousal information of the relevant individual with parents/siblings of relevant individual in a confusing way. Exclude information about individual's parents and siblings, which are already described in the very top section.

(IF Marriage Fields contain data ELSE empty)

[IndividualName] married [SpouseName] on [MarriageDate] in [MarriagePlace]

[MarriageMemo]

Marriage Event: [TypeField] - [EventDate], [EventPlace] ^[2]<-- Currently Wikitree displays "Event" then "Type:" then the [TypeField]; all that is unnecessary; simply display the contents of the [TypeField]

Memo: [EventMemo]

Child(ren): (IF Children Fields contain data ELSE empty)

[ChildName1]

[ChildName2]

[ChildName3]

etc.

etc. (i.e., repeat for each Marriage Event/Type. End family section with:)

Marriage Notes: [MarriageMemoContents]

Other Imported Data

UserID: [UserID]

Ancestral File Number: [AFN]

Automated Record ID (Individual): [Indi.RIN}

Automated Record ID (Family): [Fam.RIN]

etc.

Sources

Footnotes (or Endnotes or Citations)

1. ↑ [ChrSource], [SourceDate], [SourcePage]

   [SourceText]

2. ↑ [MarrSource], [SourceDate], [SourcePage]

   [SourceText]

Bibliography (or Authorities or References)

Ideally the following would display appropriately anything entered in the <REF> tags as grouped by the <references /> tag. I.e., we would not use S123, S456, etc. but simply, for each referenced item above. The order of the fields would match standard citation practice:

• [Author], [Title], [PublicationPlace]: [PublicationDate]. [Type]. [RepositoryName]. (am I missing any fields?)

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile [ProfileField] created through the import of [GEDCOM FileName] on [UploadDate] by [Contributor]. See the [Changes page] for the details of edits by [ContributorFirstName] and others.

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