* Consolidate lists, flags and keywords

[PeterR]

As mentioned briefly elsewhere (http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... y&num=4181) the Source record already has additional fields and sub-fields in FH.  These are Data, Events Recorded, Date Period, and Place; (it is this Place field that doesn't work like other Place fields in FH, for no apparent good reason). From the GEDCOM Standard:

EVENTS_RECORDED: = {Size=1:90}
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An enumeration of the different kinds of events that were recorded in a particular source. Each enumeration is separated by a comma. Such as a parish register of births, deaths, and marriages would be BIRT, DEAT, MARR.

I much prefer to use standard GEDCOM facilities where possible, as in this case to record the type of events covered by a particular source, rather than an FH extension or (even worse in my opinion for this sort of thing) list membership.  Unfortunately (and as I also mentioned to Simon) FH doesn't yet implement Events-Recorded properly - as you can see it allows only a single value (correctly constrained) rather than a comma-separated list.

As you probably gather, I think there is considerable merit in using Flags, or other extensions (Source-Type, Keyword, Marriage-Status, etc.) for information which is intrinsic to the record to which it is attached, and in using list membership to provide a means of grouping essentially arbitrary sets of records, e.g. for 'Work in Progress' or 'To check at RO'.