Recording Education Records

[cjones8]

What is the best / correct way to record the education record for a person?

There are several people for whom I know multiple education institutions e.g. primary school, high school, university etc.

Ancestris only seems to allow you it create one EDUC record (event) (at least when using the Aries editor). How canI enter multiple education events especially when different schools possibly in different places have been attended? Sometimes there may be multiple schools at the same education stage e.g. 2 high schools if the child / parents moved during the period.

MTIA

[Zurga]

This is a common misconception to believe that EDUC means "school attended".
In GEDCOM specification EDUC means : "Indicator of a level of education attained".
So, only one EDUC tag is necessary to indicate the level of education attained.
EDUC is an attribute (skill) of the individual not an event.

GRAD is more an event allowing to give all the diploma obtained.

To describe the education times, I suggest to create an event (EVEN) and specify the description in TYPE sub-tag.

Zurga

[cjones8]

Thanks for that. I'll give it a go. I'll create an event and use type "primary school", "high school" etc for the different stages.

Guess I need to go back and rework / clean-up those "EDUC" entries I had already created.