* Funerary arrangements

[sgdawson]

On the 'Detail' tab of the Properties window for a given individual there are boxes for 'Buried' place and date.  As most people are cremated not buried these days, it would be a much better idea to give a funeral date and place, along with a qualifying burial/cremation selection.

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[Jane]

There is a specific GEDCOM event for Creamated to you are better using the All Tab to enter the event. I don't think there is room on the detail tab for both.

[ChrisBowyer]

Personally I always do this kind of thing on the Events tab. Presumably what's on Detail is a fairly arbitrary set of events and attributes that the designers thought you'd be most likely to use, and it's constrained by space of course.

[JonAxtell]

Chris wrote 'Presumably what's on Detail is a fairly arbitrary set of events and attributes that the designers thought you'd be most likely to use'.

I assumed that too, but I wonder why both Baptized and Christened are on the tab. Most of the time (if not all) it's one or the other, and in any case it's only semantics as to which you use. From the dictionary definition christened means being baptised as well as being named. Baptism being more for individuals other than babies being brought into a christian church, though christening could happen quite late too.

The same issue about most likely to use fields raises the question about why Group/Caste, National Origin, Religion, and Emigration fields appear on the detail tab. The count of children and marriages are bit superfluous too as well since it would be more likely that actual individuals would be created for the children/spouses or at least placeholders.

Coming from PAF I really liked it's templates for what information you wanted displayed in it's equivalent of the detail tab. Having thought of that, I think I'll put it in the wish list! [smile]

[Jane]

This is already on the wish list as
'Ability to customise events shown on the detail tab'