* Australian Death Certifcates

[janefrances]

I'm trying to input the above death certificate for someone who died in 1932 and have got into a bit of a bother! All is well until I get to the stage where the certificate gives name and surname of father (died 1908) and his mother (died 1871) maiden name (if known)

I have added a occupation fact for his father as gardener with the date 'before' the death date of his father (1908) however what about his mother? How can I link this to her?

Also children's names and ages are given, how would I go about adding a fact to link to their father (the one who died in 1932)

Thanks
Jane

[tatewise]

Since you have supplied them in (brackets) I presume the parents death dates are NOT given on the certificate.

So you can add a Citation to the Source for the father's Name field and the mother's Name field.

Likewise, you can add a Citation to the Source for each of the children's Name fields.

The only way to have more explicit facts is to create a Custom Fact named say Death Certificate.
Then you can add a Citation to the Source for each Death Certificate fact for the father, mother, and children.
This will allow the Age details for the childen to be recorded.

Use Tools > Work with Fact Sets and the New button to create the Individual Event.
The sentence Template would need to be something like:
{individual} was recorded on a relative's Death Certificate {date} {place} {age}

If instead you created an Individual Attribute then its value could be the relative, e.g. son or father.
Then the sentence Template could be something like:
{individual} was recorded on their {value}'s Death Certificate {date} {place} {age}

In FH Version 5 the Normal Time Frame would need to be None to avoid Date warnings, because for the parents it is Post-Death but for the children it is probaby Life.
Does NOT apply to FH Version 4.

[janefrances]

Thanks Mike, have created a fact called Death Certificate and linked the citations to this, with his date of death, it appears at the bottom of the fact tab on the property box and looks a little odd having this entry after his mothers death.

Didn't like it under the name tab for the mother, as it doesn't appear in the facts tab of the property box.
Many thanks Mike
Jane

[tatewise]

Why do you think the Death Certificate Event looks odd after his mother's Death.
It happened well after her Death, just like a Burial, or an Obituary, or Probate, or a posthumous award would occur after her Death.

Although the Name Citation does not appear in the list of Facts on the Facts tab, it is still detectable.
With the yellow Sources pane open, click on the Sources For box top right, and Name will be shown with an asterisk (*) that indicates it has a Citation, and if selected will show the Source.

Many genealogists like to record where Names come from and using Name Citations is the way to do it, especially when there are several Alternative Names for alternative spellings.

[janefrances]

I've never thought of using the Name citation for anything really!
To me, it looks odd to have a death certificate to show up in the property box fact tab being used to seeing just the death, burial or probate dates.

Thanks
Jane