HCMC Journal

Monument 2023-03-20 to 2023-03-24

20 March 2023 to 24 March 2023: Martin Holmes
Minutes: 380

Over the weekend, I modularized the listings site build process because it turns out that later steps need to be able to read and use the pages from earlier steps in order to construct links into them; got that working and tested. On Monday, added more information from the original records into individual person pages, and tweaked some layout issues; also added data preparing to generate pages for uprooted locations, and some staticSearch meta tags.

On Thursday, we met at length to discuss issues around family unification or separation. Decisions made:

• Where parents were no longer together, each should be listed as former husband or former wife on the other’s record. That will cause the processing to not treat them as husband and wife, or try to merge them as a family.
• All cases where ex- was used in the LOI data should be fixed so that we standardize on former. I will do that.
• Where a relationship is common-law, we can capture that if we wish using the phrase common-law wife etc. The Monument build code needs to be modified to take account of that by ignoring the phrase, so that families are merged in these cases. We resolved to treat all common-law partnerships as equivalent to marriage. I will fix the processing to handle this.

Then in the afternoon I made my changes; the result was to break the build because of duplicate husbands, so I found and fixed the cases where there was a former husband not listed as former.

On Friday, met to discuss some issues around multiple locations for people and also cases where the origin place is outside the coast zone but people were uprooted anyway (e.g. Cranbrook). Also did some tweaks to data to fix typos.