Biographical basics and family
Profile description and usage
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This profile provides classes and properties that describe essential aspects of a person's life (see how to add a Person), like gender, birth, death, origine, current residence, general localisation and marriage.
Hint: This profile is often used together with the profiles:
--> indicate the gender of a person
--> indicate birth information of a person
--> indicate death information of a person
--> indicate the origin of a person
--> indicate a precise whereabouts of a person at a given moment
--> indicate the residence/domicile of a person
--> indicate partnerships (marriages) and link children to it (sons and daughters)
--> use this class to indicate asserted existence of a person at a given moment in time.
To add types of gender (male, female...), it is best to add the entities "male" and "female" already existing in the toolbox and used by other projects. For this, click on "add gender" and "add & open" an existing gender entity on the right side:
Remember that you can change the appellation of a gender (men, H, M; women, F, W), as long as the meaning of the entity does not change.
Be careful: twins, triplets etc. are brought into life by the same Birth event.
If you want to add information on the origin of a person, you can follow these steps:
Open a person card.
Select "has its origins in".
Use the class 'social location of an actor' to enter information on the residency/domicile of a person (including its address):
Open entity card of a person.
Click on add 'has social quality'.
If several options exist, select "social location of an actor"
Use the class localisation to provide the asserted whereabouts of a person at a given time in history.
Example
Otto Franz was in Berlin in 1896.
The class relationship/union is used to give information on marriages or other forms of unions of two persons (concubinage etc., open relationship or even a one-night stand).
Relationship/Union associates two (always two) Persons participating in a union with the field had partner. However, you can also add the information of only one partner if the other is unknown.
For each relationship/union, you can indicate a date (time-span) and a place (Geographical Place or Construction). You can also link in the birth of children that originated from this union with the field "brought into life". Note that the same relationship/union should be used to refer to all births of children of the same partners.
Important: to create unions, it is best to open the entity module on the left and chose "add union". This allows to add two partners to the union.
In the case where the existence of a person is asserted, but the dates of birth and death are not known, you can use the class 'physical thing life'. This allows you to indicate an asserted mention of a person in documentary archives or other sources.
The birth of a person concerns both a date (time-span) and a place ( or ). You can also give information about kinship via the of the parents using the field "stemmed from".
The death of a person concerns both a date (time-span), and either the place where the death took place () or the building where a person died ().
Hint: In case you want to make clear the exact address, then link the social location to a building () and name your building accordingly:
Hint: Family structures are defined via relationship/union of the parents. The of persons is linked to the union of their parents.
You can further define the types of union you deal with (marriage etc.) using the functions.
You can use the definition field to clearly identify what type of mention it is. Furthermore, if wished, you can link the created entity with the in question.
