Help:Residence

"Residence" was an attribute of individuals that had been partly worked out by Phlox before he stopped editing around 2010. Work towards completing it is now being done by User:Robin Patterson, assisted by others including User:Thurstan and User:Rtol. Much of what is on this page should be considered tentative until further notice. Readers are welcome to put questions, suggestions, and comments on the talk page.

Each person who has an individual Fact page can have any number of residence facts. Each residence can have up to six separate "place" facts and several "time" facts, similar to those for birth, wedding1, and so on, but with the major difference that the residence has a duration, a start date and an end date.

Residence data is entered with a form in much the same way as birth, wedding1, etc, and displayed with [[T|Showfacts residence}}, a template that can be moved around the article like the mini-biography, the siblings table, and the children table.

The data can also be collected for bdm pages, showing the start and end dates of individuals known to have resided in the place, a more useful indication than the current [[Category:Resided in ....

For the time in a person's life when residence was unknown, no data should be entered. For times when residence was known, a start date and an end date should be entered. For consecutive residences, the end date of one should be copied to the start date fields of the next.