Add space for baptism sponsors/witnesses under Christening

KateDunlay

I find it frustrating that there is no space in the Christening field for baptism sponsors/witnesses. I usually end up creating a custom event for Baptism so I can include the name of the sponsors. These names often are important in determining relationships; they can be big clues. Unfortunately they aren't included in extracted records either.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I add them to the description/notes field of the source citation.

I suppose you could also use the reason box for the christening. (Well, not for my one great-grandfather who had somewhere on the order of 15 godparents; I don't think they'd fit. But those aren't useful for identification anyway. I doubt anybody kept track of godparents in that village.)

Fun tidbit: I have an ancestor who had her eventual parents-in-law as her godparents.