Help: Cemeteries

About Cemeteries in TNG

To use the TNG Cemeteries feature effectively, it is important to fully understand the relationship between "Cemeteries" and "Burial Placenames" in TNG. Most fundamentally,

It is common for record-keepers to omit facility names from Birth, Death, and Burial events, and
It is natural for new TNG admins to try to maintain that convention, and to use the Cemeteries feature to separate those events by Cemetery.
But Burial placenames that you want to associate with a cemetery must include the cemetery name.

The Cemeteries article in the TNG Wiki explains the TNG Cemeteries feature and the requirements for making it work in great detail.

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The Cemeteries Search Form (as modified by the Admin Cemeteries Search mod) allows you to

Enter a search string to match all or part the Cemetery name and certain other fields (including location components) in the Cemetery record,
Select Location components from "smart" drop-down lists (IF the site administrator has used Admin Cemeteries Search Mod Parameter to enable the Location selection fields),
Control whether certain fields are searched for the search string
Determine whether certain information will be included in or excluded from the search results table, and
Control the sort order of the Cemeteries found by the search.

Your search criteria for this page will be remembered until you click the Reset button, which restores all default values and searches again.

Actions

The Action buttons next to each search result allow you to edit, delete or preview that result. To delete more than one record at a time, click the box in the Select column for each record to be deleted, then click the "Delete Selected" button at the top of the list. Use the Select All or Clear All buttons to toggle all select boxes at once.

Show Details (in this help file)

Changes made by the Admin Cemeteries Search Mod

Location Selection Boxes
At the very top of the form, 4 "smart" selection boxes focus the search by specifying values for Country, State, County, and City. They are "smart" in the sense that
- Each selection box is dynamically updated so it it always contains location names that are are within the next higher-level. That is, if Country=USA, then the States box only offers States in the USA, and if State=Iowa, then the County box only offers counties in Iowa, etc.
- Actually, when a state is selected, (as noted above), the County selection list is updated to contain only counties from that state, and the City selection list becomes "Cities and Counties", and is loaded with all cities in the state, sorted alphabetically, plus their counties.
- When you select any location component, that component is removed from the list of fields that are searched.
Effect of the location selection boxes on the search string
When location components (Country, State, County, City) have been selected in the new Location controls, the search is limited to cemeteries in the selected location.
New features in the existing 'Search for' field:
- A caret (^) at the beginning of the search string means "Anchor it to the beginning of the database fields being searched"; e.g. "^Bacon" will find "Bacon Cemetery", but not "Charles Bacon Cemetery".
- A dollar sign ($) at the end of the database fields being searched"; e.g. "Kansas$" will find Kansas, but not Kansas City
New search form controls that affect the search
1. Location Selection Boxes - described above
2. Checkboxes to control whether certain fields are searched
  To the right of the search string field, a list of database fields tells you which of those fields are searched.
  - The city, county, state, country are removed from that list if they have been selected in one of the location selection boxes on the line above, and
  - Two checkboxes control whether the maplink and/or notes fields are included. (The maplink field was always searched by the native TNG code, and the notes field was not.)
  Note that the Cemetery Name field is always searched.
Controls that affect what is in the results table
1. Checkboxes that control optional columns in the search results table
  - Associated Places checkbox.
    Note that, in databases with more than one tree (and where the trees have separate Places lists), identical placenames in different trees can all be associated with one cemetery.
  - Geocodes checkbox
    The native TNG code always displayed Geocodes, but they are now optional
  - Notes checkbox.
    Note that there is another "Notes" checkbox (described above) that determines whether Notes are searched, whereas this "Notes" checkbox determines whether Notes are displayed
  - Burial & Headston Counts (See below)
  - Burial and Headstone Count Filter (see below)
Sorting of Search Results
1. Headstone or Burial Count (see below)
2. Place sort
  A drop-down selection box selection box on the 'Sort by' row in the search form allows you to sort on
  - The Cemetery Name, City, County, State, and Country - just like the pristine code,
  - The Country, State, County, City, and Cemetery name - a more "logical", but less familiar sort order, or
  - The Associated Placename (which, by definition, includes the location, starting with the smallest location component). This option is available only if the Associate Placename is being displayed in the results table.
3. Sort Direction - Ascending or Descending
  Each of the sorting options has a hyperlink-based control that allows you to indicated whether the sort is Ascending (ASC), or Descending (DESC).
Burials and Cemeteries
1. Checkboxes that effect results table columns
  - Burial Counts In the TNG database, burials are not directly connected to Cemeteries. If you check the "Burial Counts" checkbox, then the database query will include the People table, will count the number of people with primary burial events at the Placename associated with the cemetery. And, since Cemeteries are not tied to Trees, the databases will look for that Associated Placename in all trees.
  - Headstone Count
    In the TNG database, images in the "Headstones" collection can be directly associated with a Cemetery. So the Headstone Count is the number of Media Items that are tied to a Cemetery, not the number of People who have Headstone images and were buried at a Cemetery.
2. Burial and Headstone Count Filter
  A set of controls lets you specify an upper or lower limit for the Headstone and/or Burial count.
  - If you have selected only Burials or Headstones, the controls look like this:
    Omit cemeteries for which the Burial count is
  - If you have selected both counts, the same limit applies to both fields:
    Omit cemeteries for which both counts are
  - If you have not selected either count, these filter controls are not visible.
3. Sort by Headstone or Burial Count
  When the Headstone and/or Burial counts are selected, one of the counts can be used as the primary sort key. (The 'Burial Count' and 'Headstone Count' checkboxes on the 'Sort by' line are mutually exclusive, since the complex Cemetery Search query simply cannot sort on both counts at once.)
Field Buttons
This mod attaches small button-styled hyperlinks that I call Field Buttons to some form fields. The code that support Field Buttons is installed by the optional Field Buttons mod. If the Field Buttons mod is not installed, the Field Buttons described here will simply not appear.

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Add New / Edit Existing Cemeteries

TNG allows you to categorize and display your headstone photos by cemetery. To do that, you must set up a new cemetery record for each location. Cemetery records in TNG are not related to place records and there is no GEDCOM convention for cemeteries, so even if your GEDCOM file contains cemetery names in some of your burial locations, those names will not cause cemetery records to be created in TNG when your GEDCOM file is imported.

To add a new cemetery, click on the Add New tab, then fill out the form. To make changes to an existing cemetery, use the Search tab to locate the cemetery, then click on the Edit icon next to that line. When adding or editing a cemetery, take note of the following:

Cemetery Name

Include the full, proper name for the cemetery. For example, the Salt Lake City Cemetery should be entered as Salt Lake City Cemetery, not just Salt Lake City or Salt Lake.

Map Image to Upload

If you have a map or other photo of this cemetery and it has not yet been uploaded to your web site, click the "Browse" button and locate it on your hard drive. If the photo is already in the Headstones folder on your site, leave this field blank and use the "Map File Name within headstones folder" field instead.

Map File Name within Headstones folder

If you had previously uploaded your map or photo to the Headstones folder, enter the path and file name as it exists within the Headstones folder on your web site, or click on the Select button to locate the file. If you are uploading your map or photo now using the previous field, use this box to enter a path and file name for your file after it is uploaded. A suggested path and file name will be prepopulated for you.

NOTE: If you are uploading now, the directory you indicate here must already exist and must be writeable. You may be able to use the "Make Folder" button in the General Settings to create the folder if it does not already exist. If that fails, use an FTP program or online file manager.

Associated Place

To link this cemetery to a place, enter the place name here as it exists in your database, or proceed to fill out the City, County/Parish, State/Province/Shire, Country information below and click the Fill Place button. Clicking that button will take values you've entered for the other fields and use them to populate the Associated Place field.

When a cemetery is associated with a place, information about the cemetery will show on the place page, and a list of burials associated with the place will be listed on the cemetery page.

City, County/Parish, State/Province/Shire, Country

Enter as much information as you know about the location of this cemetery. The Country is required, but each of the other fields is optional.

For State/Province/Shire and Country, select an existing entry using the dropdown box. If the desired entry is not present, use the "Add New" button to add it to the list. If an entry in the list does not belong there, first select it and then click on the "Delete Selected" button.

Show/Hide Clickable Map

Click the "Show/Hide Clickable Map" button to show the Google Map. This feature is only active if you have received a "key" from Google and entered it in your TNG Map Settings (see the Map Settings Help for more information). Click the button again to hide the map. To have Google Maps search for a location, enter that location in the Geocode Location field and click the "Search" button. Alternately, you can click and drag on the map to move the "pin" until it sits at the desired location. You can also use the Zoom controls to show more detail around the desired area. See the Google Maps Help page for more information. Also see the Map Settings Help for information on default settings for your maps.

Latitude/Longitude

Enter the latitude and longitude coordinates of the cemetery or use the Clickable Google Map to set the values (optional, see above).

Zoom

Enter the zoom level or adjust the zoom controls on the Google Map above to set the zoom level. This option is only available if you have received a "key" from Google and entered it in your TNG Map Settings.

Notes

If additional information is needed to describe the cemetery or its location, enter it here (optional).

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Deleting Cemeteries

To delete one cemetery, use the Search tab to locate the cemetery, then click on the Delete icon next to that cemetery record. The row will change color and then vanish as the cemetery is deleted. To delete more than one cemetery at a time, check the box in the Select column next to each cemetery to be deleted, then click the "Delete Selected" button at the top of the page.

The Places record for the Cemetery's Associate Place will not be affected when you delete a cemetery.