nFS and adding source information
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:32 pm
Our temple district (Stockholm) went live with nFS in August.
It's really wonderful to be able to start using this system.
I find it easy to use and it's been possible to interest even
people previously not so interested in genealogy.
One thing though that I see many possibilities for improvement is
when wanting to add source information. Currently a big window
with at least 20 fields to fill in comes up. This is simply too unwieldy
to use. In Sweden there are 4-5 common sources.
Church censors, birth books, marriage books, death books. These
four different sources consititute about 90% of the sources used for my
ancestors in Sweden.
It should be possible to simplify this greatly. In the example of Sweden
all of the above information is even available on the Web (with a
subscription to http://www.genline.se). So two ideas pop up in my head.
The long-term solution I think is to describe the source as a web link
extended by a rectangular coordinates of where on the web page
the source is located.
The short-term solution is to have a context-
sensitive add source. So for Sweden a list of the 4-5 popular sources
come up with information on page number in the source. If the source
doesn't fit the standard template then it could be ok to open up a more
diverse window as it is currently.
Mikael Ronstrom
It's really wonderful to be able to start using this system.
I find it easy to use and it's been possible to interest even
people previously not so interested in genealogy.
One thing though that I see many possibilities for improvement is
when wanting to add source information. Currently a big window
with at least 20 fields to fill in comes up. This is simply too unwieldy
to use. In Sweden there are 4-5 common sources.
Church censors, birth books, marriage books, death books. These
four different sources consititute about 90% of the sources used for my
ancestors in Sweden.
It should be possible to simplify this greatly. In the example of Sweden
all of the above information is even available on the Web (with a
subscription to http://www.genline.se). So two ideas pop up in my head.
The long-term solution I think is to describe the source as a web link
extended by a rectangular coordinates of where on the web page
the source is located.
The short-term solution is to have a context-
sensitive add source. So for Sweden a list of the 4-5 popular sources
come up with information on page number in the source. If the source
doesn't fit the standard template then it could be ok to open up a more
diverse window as it is currently.
Mikael Ronstrom