* standards regarding burial locations

[stewartrb]

For starters, I like how FH sticks events and attributes where they're logically expected when there is no date. Previously I had to give burials a date of 'after death date' to make them sort right. Now I can thankfully leave it blank and it goes right to the end. (Unless I have the actual burial record with a date of course.)

Anyway, I used to record the location of the burial as follows:

cemetery, city, county, state.

But that doesn't seem to be in line with the 'place hierarchy' in the gedcom standard which is the jurisdictional names. And if I'm using software like Family Atlas it's expecting to see city, county, state, etc.. I doubt their database could ever include every Jones Family Cemetery that's out there.

So arrived at the solution, to make my data more 'exportable' into other tools, to revise the burials to have the jurisdictional info in the place, (i.e. city, county, state) and then provide the cemetery name, and the address if I have it, in the address line.

But I didn't like how the default sentence now dropped the cemetery name from the narrative. So I revised the burial tag and included . Which looks fine on-screen.

But I don't think I can get the address info to appear on the ancestor outline report, for example. (At least I didn't see how I could edit the output format for it in the options and list.)

Also, the gedcom standard says 'The address lines usually contain the addressee’s name and other street and city information so that it forms an address that meets mailing requirements.'

Bottom line: Is there a standard consensus on how cememtery names should be handled in the Burial tag?

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[Jane]

Personally I put them in the address, as I do for Church names for marriages etc.

On the outline reports have you tried ticking the inc Event Addresses option in Report options?

[stewartrb]

I haven't noticed that option before. Will try it. Thanks.

(And that was where I have also been moving church names, hospital, etc., as well.)

[PeterR]

I think that, in the case of a church graveyard, it can easily be argued that the name of the church should be part of the Place hierarchy.  For the Church of England, the jurisdictional hierarchy might be something like:

• Parish (Parochial Church Council - PCC)
• Deanery
• Archdeaconry
• Diocese
• Province (i.e. Canterbury or York)
• Primacy (i.e. C of E)

However, it is probably more useful to use: Church, Village, Town, County, Country. I actually put the Church name in the Address field instead.