[TW5] for genealogy and LDS microfilm records

[David Szego]

Hi all,

I've been using TW5 to index a couple of thousand scans I have of microfilms from familysearch.org and the LDS.

What I've done is taken various common layouts of these birth, marriage and death records, and created view & edit template-Tiddlers.

These allow you to enter one record entry per Tiddler, in a fixed and standardized format.
Each field is then a Tiddler field which you can search/filter on.

Example view:

Example edit:

There is also a handy sidebar for managing records, with a drop-down to create a new record of any type.

If this is of use to anyone, let me know and I can go into details.

Available here:

http://david.szego.me/genealogy.html#Birth%20-%20Beinhaker%20Arnold%20Zsigmond%20Zinger%20Antone%20-%20Grunfeld%20Hermin%20Jakab%20Samek%20Hani%20-%201898-99%20Jablonica%20(2):%5B%5BBirth%20-%20Beinhaker%20Arnold%20Zsigmond%20Zinger%20Antone%20-%20Grunfeld%20Hermin%20Jakab%20Samek%20Hani%20-%201898-99%20Jablonica%20(2)%5D%5D%20Records

Cheers,
David.

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Ciao David

Impressive on the fine-grainedness. The richness of the data.

The one thing I was looking for I couldn't find was a "relationship map" ... I mean how to navigate between relatives to understand their positioning genealogically to each other.

Best wishes
Josiah

[David Szego]

Thanks, Josiah. I'm using this as my database for transcribing microfilm entries, and tracking which ones I've put into my family tree. Tagging and search makes for a wonderful way to refer back, and once I standardize the field names a little better, I can make comparisons even easier.

The actual relationships are not in TW. I use FamilyTreeMaker for Mac, which then gets sync'd to ancestry.com ... Sometimes it's better to use a solid, well-established tool than to try and re-build one!

Check http://david.szego.me/scans for the kinds of microfilm slides I'm dealing with.