herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote: > To get your opinion how to handle this: > > In previous versions of Gramps (1.X) it was possible to register (as > godfathers and godmothers f.e.) people that were not in the database > properly speaking. So when I upgraded, a lot of these records were lost When you upgraded Gramps? or switched to another program? > (really lost or replaced with references to empty records, both occurred). > Now I wanted to restore these infos, but then I hit the problem that the > .... > > > How do you (would you) handle this? > Assuming you're still running Gramps the way I'd suggest is: Make the person you want edit the primary person - click "add" select or add the "father" and "mother" - edit the relationship between the two of them as appropriate - edit the primary person's entry in the "new family" to show the appropriate relationship to the "mother" and to the "father". I'll grant you that "godfather" isn't one of the choices but "sponsor" is. Does that do what you need? > > Herman Viaene Dave Rowell

David Rowell wrote: > herman.viaene@thuis.be wrote: >> To get your opinion how to handle this: >> >> In previous versions of Gramps (1.X) it was possible to register (as >> godfathers and godmothers f.e.) people that were not in the database >> properly speaking. So when I upgraded, a lot of these records were lost > > When you upgraded Gramps? or switched to another program? When I upgraded to Gramps 2.1 > >> (really lost or replaced with references to empty records, both >> occurred). Now I wanted to restore these infos, but then I hit the >> problem that the .... >> >> >> How do you (would you) handle this? >> > Assuming you're still running Gramps the way I'd suggest is: Make the > person you want edit the primary person - click "add" select or add the > "father" and "mother" - edit the relationship between the two of them as > appropriate - edit the primary person's entry in the "new family" to > show the appropriate relationship to the "mother" and to the "father". > I'll grant you that "godfather" isn't one of the choices but "sponsor" is. > > Does that do what you need? I see what you mean. I'd thought about adding Associations, but the problem remains the same in both cases: you adding people to the database for whom either data exist in another database, or none exist, and for the overall contents of the database need not to exist (not part of the family whatsoever). Another remark to your proposal: the result seems (as I understood you) like adding another set of "parents", but with relation "sponsored". I wonder how other people not closely related to these particular persons might interprete this? To me it could convey the idea of something like a "long distance adaption" like Foster Parents Plan??? Tx anyway for your effort. Herman Viaene -- Veel mensen danken hun goed geweten aan hun slecht geheugen. (G. Bomans) Lots of people owe their good conscience to their bad memory (G. Bomans)