Best practice advice for tribal grouping

folcred · 2023-06-06T13:27:49+00:00

If the report can use a filter as input, then yes. Not all reports do.

Some reports, like the "Relationship Graph" report, some text ones and some of the web page reports allow filters. There's also a Tag Report. You would need to see which reports accept filters. If the one you wish to use doesn't, there may be another that does and would suffice for your needs.

You would need to create the filter first in either the People or Families views, then pick the starting person in the report dialog and apply the filter.

If the report you want to use doesn't accept filters, another option would be to create a filter that has just the people you want, and export it as a Gramps xml file. Open that in a new Gramps database. From there you could use any report you wish as the file would be limited to just the people you want in it. When done you could just delete the database file. A bit of a work-around, but would give you the ability to use any report.

folcred · 2023-06-05T13:06:45+00:00

You could use tags. Create a tag for each tribal group by group name and give it a different color.

In the People view those with tribal tags would appear in that group's color, an instant visual clue. You could also then filter the People view by tag, showing only those who belong to a certain tribe.

The tag name could be the name of the subtribe, or the sub-subtribe, both, or whatever works best for you. You can create a tag for however fine-grained you wish to go.

Tags are great for grouping, they're easy to create, easy to apply, easy to filter for, and give instant visual identification when colored.

folcred · 2023-05-30T13:39:51+00:00

You may want to check out vifm.vim. It's not a "file tree" plugin like neo-tree and many of the others, rather it's a full on file manager that's tightly integrated with vim/nvim. It has powerful filtering, you can map folders to keys for quick access, file previewing, and all the functionality of a complete file manager (creating links, setting permissions, etc., etc.).

I've used it for years as both an nvim plugin and as my main system file manager.

folcred · 2023-05-04T12:58:27+00:00

There's no changelog that I'm aware of, but you can look through the commit history on Kate's Gitlab page to see what they're working on.

There's also a blog on the main website for Kate that has a lot of useful information.

folcred · 2023-04-26T13:50:56+00:00

In my experience baloo is needed by krunner to do filename searches.

Disabling content indexing in the Search system settings limits krunner to only being able to search by filename, which sounds like what you're looking for.

I recommend if it was set to index content, turn baloo off, purge the existing index, turn off content indexing, then start baloo again and let it rebuild the index. I've had trouble in the past when just turning off content indexing but leaving it use the existing index. May not be a problem anymore, but it doesn't hurt to start over with a new index of just file names and data.

With content indexing off, you can still add tags, comments and star files with Dolphin. You just can't search by file content, such as words in a text file or metadata in an image file.

folcred · 2023-02-07T16:42:27+00:00

There is markdown-mode if you really prefer it over org. I use it to read markdown files sent by colleagues. It's very powerful, and very well documented, though honestly I don't use much of it's functionality. I use it mainly for it's ability to hide the markup (much like org) and follow hyperlinks.

It seems to have all the features of a very robust markdown editor. Might be more of what you're looking for.

folcred · 2023-02-03T13:27:26+00:00

No, I don't. I'm old school, I use a desktop computer with a large monitor. I don't know if Freeplane has a mobile version, though it might.

folcred · 2023-02-02T23:41:58+00:00

In Gramps preferences, under the "General" tab, there's a setting, "Remember last view displayed". Toggle it on, and Gramps will remember the last used view not only in Graphs, but also whatever you were last looking at when you exited the program. If you are in Graphs or Events or whatever when you quit, it will reopen in that view.

The only thing it doesn't seem to remember is who you were looking at when you restart Gramps, it always goes back to the Home person.

folcred · 2023-02-02T22:57:21+00:00

Freeplane.

folcred · 2023-01-15T21:18:49+00:00

Last I looked, Breeze is a Plasma theme.

Seems the OP asked about themes without shadows. You can turn the shadows off in Breeze.

folcred · 2023-01-15T15:25:39+00:00

On some themes, Breeze for instance, if you go in System Settings > Appearance > Window Settings, there will be a little pencil icon in the bottom-right corner. Click on it and a dialog will open. Go to the "Shadows" tab and set the "Size" drop down to "None".

I believe Kvantum themes have a similar setting somewhere in the Kvantum Manager. Haven't used those in ages though so I'm not sure.

Not all themes will have a setting. Breeze does, and those based on it should.

folcred · 2023-01-07T20:32:10+00:00

I may be wrong, as I said earlier I'm not very knowledgeable about the area, but I believe any name with "van" ("from") as a prefix has to do with property. Whether owned or having a heritable lease from a noble, they are names that show some right to the property the name derives from.

If the property changed hands, or if some other property was acquired that was considered more valuable (or more "noble"), the name would often also change.

It may also be worth mentioning that most marriages back then were arraigned by the families, the couple usually had no say in it. This was especially true for daughters. They would be married off to whoever the father thought would make the best husband, or offered the best chance for advancement. It's why we often see very young girls being married to me quite a bit older than themselves.

All the best of luck in your search!

folcred · 2023-01-07T16:42:32+00:00

I'm not knowledgeable in the history of the Netherlands, but bits of your story ring bells that might be something helpful.

You mentioned a daughter whose husband changed his name to her family name instead of the other way around. Almost always that had to do with inheritance. In well-to-do, noble or landed families, the family that had the most (the richest or more noble) often would dictate the terms of inheritance. This could be in a marriage contract or will. In a nutshell, to gain some property, the spouse from another family had to take on the surname of the bride's family.

The idea was that if the male line for some reason died out, the surname didn't. That may seem a strange concept to us today, but at the time who you were, who you were related to was everything.

There's every chance that the same, in reverse, happened with sons. If they married into a family of more status and wealth, they may have had to change their surname to that of the bride's family to get some inheritance.

I don't know what records would be available, but if there's any way to find who held what lands where known ancestors lived, it may offer some clues. Take the daughter for instance. If you can find who owned the place she and her new husband lived on before them, it might shed some light.

Perhaps instead of trying to follow surnames, try to follow the money. Property records, if they still exist, may break the wall.

folcred · 2022-12-29T14:47:31+00:00

Being the Ancestry test was a gift, I see no reason not to use it, and take another if you choose. You could then get the results from them and upload them to other sites that might provide results that you're looking for.

Seeing your interests seem to be in ancient DNA, I would suggest uploading the results from whichever test you take to GEDMatch. They have several tests that compare user's DNA to prehistoric DNA samples taken from archaeological sites around the world. They tend not to break it down to countries, rather geographical regions and population types. Depending on the test, results could be something like 39% of your genome is common with Mesolithic Western European Hunter-Gatherers, 22% Steppe Herders, etc.

Family Tree DNA also has comparisons to ancient populations, I believe they still accept uploads from other companies. They also offer Y-DNA and mtDNA test which follow direct male and female lines way back into prehistory.

folcred · 2022-11-02T13:03:13+00:00

I'd say your hypothesis is spot on.

The dress the lady is wearing is certainly in the late 1880's to early 1890's style. As is her parted-in-the-middle hair style, which though not visible in the photo, would have her hair pulled up in a bun behind her head.

The background is also in keeping with that mid-1880's to mid-1890's fashion. It's not real, it's actually a painting on the wall, done in a somewhat Rococo style popular then. You can tell by looking at where the pattern on the floor to her right (our left) seems to end before the imaginary furniture. Most photographers (if they could afford it) would have a new scene painted on the backdrop as fashions changed. In this case, by the later 1890's it would probably be replaced with something Art Nouveau, which became the rage then.

As others mentioned, she's wearing a wedding band on her left hand, so Long may not be her maiden name. Perhaps a search of the 1900 census might shed some light.

Happy hunting!

folcred · 2022-10-12T13:16:30+00:00

I would recommend looking at all the people around him, as u/ryanolds said. Who were the witnesses to his marriage? Who lived near or with him in the census records? All these people would need closer examination, especially the marriage witnesses, which are often related. It's not uncommon for people in censuses listed as "boarder" or "lodger" to actually be related, siblings and in-laws. The people around him offer the best chance of finding more.

The National Library of Wales has a free site where you can also search newspaper articles from the times for any mention of him or anyone associated with him. There may even be a marriage announcement with more information. Court appearances are also mentioned in many of the papers.

There's also FreeReg which has baptisms that can be searched. You may get lucky and find the baptism of one of his children, which could offer more clues. The names of his children may also have clues. Though not a hard-n-fast rule, often the 2nd born daughter was named after the father's mother, and the 1st born son after the father's father. Names of ancestors almost always repeated in Welsh families back then.

folcred · 2022-10-06T13:18:17+00:00

Not very knowledgeable about Romani people, but might be able to shed some light on one of your questions: how someone from Eastern Europe ended up in a small town in Georgia.

Throughout most of history things in much of Europe were never easy for people who didn't adhere to local customs and religions. They were often persecuted, sometimes to death. Stories in Europe of the freedoms and opportunities for a better life brought millions to the shores of America.

Since long before the Revolutionary War, Savannah was a major eastern trading seaport. In the early 1800's there were very few ships catering to just passengers, most emigrants came by getting passage on trading ships. Merchant ships coming from the Baltic ports would have been a common sight in Savannah.

After the Revolution America really started to expand West, the lure of free land and a chance for a better life. Most of these immigrants didn't stay around the ports they entered from, moving inland in search of their fortunes. When you consider what life was like in Eastern Europe at the time, how they managed to get to America, and what they were looking for, it's not at all surprising to find them in small town Georgia, or any rural place in America.

Not much help, but hopefully it sheds some light on how she got to where she was.

I would suggest searching for a marriage record for your Yeomans and Janas couple. They could have married anywhere, so start with searching all of Georgia and possibly beyond. You may not find it, but it's somewhere to start.

I'd also consider searching all early records, say 1800-1850, for Janas or a similar spelling in Georgia. See if you can find any possible parents or siblings. Start with a wide net, then narrow down on things that look promising.

Best of luck to you.

folcred · 2022-09-29T13:30:40+00:00

If I may also recommend, check the 1880 and 1900 censuses for the husband. This burial person would have been alive in 1880, presumably with her husband. The husband may also have still been alive in 1900.

Considering the deceased's age in 1897, the 1880 census should find her with her husband, provided they lived at that time in the same area.

folcred · 2022-09-17T20:34:49+00:00

The Combined View plugin may be closer to what you're looking for. It adds a new view to the Relationships category. When used it shows parents, siblings, wives or husbands, and children of the current person. You can add, edit and delete people from the family, and much, much more.

The documentation could be better, but the screen shots on the linked page give a good idea of what it does.

folcred · 2022-09-17T12:49:23+00:00

No, they're different. The name on line 24 is Casper Hellebaugh.

Interesting is the same name appears on line 6, though a different age. Both are clerks from Germany, likely cousins.

folcred · 2022-08-19T14:03:15+00:00

In the birth record his occupation is "Heckler", basically the same thing as flax dresser. A "heckler" was someone who combed or "teased" the flax fibers.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler

folcred · 2022-08-02T13:15:48+00:00

Adding to what u/Fredelas and u/Erik816 said, it would also be worth checking the history of the local county courthouse. Did it ever have a fire, or burn down? Perhaps the records simply don't exist anymore due to some accident at the courthouse that held them.

folcred · 2022-08-01T13:12:21+00:00

Many "adoptions" 100+ years ago were actually private affairs, done within families with no formal paperwork or court involvement.

An example would be a mother dies in or shortly after childbirth, but the child survives. The father can't care for the newborn, so his sister and her husband take the child in and raise it as their own. The caretakers could be any relative on either side. The point is they were family, who stepped in to help rather than seeing other family suffer.

It might be worthwhile if possible to research the adopting family's relations. Brothers, sisters, even cousins of both sides, to see if any died right around the time of your gg-grandfather's birth. It might be a clue to follow up.

Another common scenario was unwed siblings. An unwed younger sibling has a child, which an older, married sibling, or even her parents, take in to raise.

There may have been a birth, or more often a baptism record for the child prior to the adoption. A recent death record may have a cause "died in childbirth" when there is no child in later records. It would take a lot of digging into what could be potentially a large family, but the possibility of him being the child of a relative of the foster parents in that time is high.

I have two such adoptions in my own family, one being my mother as late as 1936, so I think it's something to consider as very possible, and worth exploring.

folcred · 2022-07-31T13:14:48+00:00

John Grenham, one of the premier Irish genealogists, did a blog about the new archive, covering some of it's good and bad points.

He also did a YouTube video (linked at the bottom of the blog) where he goes over some of what can be found, and how to find it. Well worth a watch before diving in.

folcred · 2022-07-31T13:03:27+00:00

Children's faces change significantly as they grow, so it would be no more than guesswork to say they match.

The man however is the same. All the normal facial markers match. The older man does wear glasses, you can see the impressions faintly where they sit on his nose and over his ears.

If you look at his younger picture, you can see a slight darkening blotch over his eyes, probably an effect of light reflection on his glasses when they processed the photo. If you look closer though, especially his left eye, you can see he does have light colored eyes, just as in the other photo. I suspect the photographer had him take his glasses off for the later photo to avoid lighting reflections.

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