Fan Chart (Family Tree) - language spoken
Sir/Madam, is it possible to ADD to the FAN CHART of Family Tree also possibility of MOTHER TONGUE (FIRST OR PREFERABLE LANGUAGE SPOKEN)? Currently, we can choose from the following: "Family lines, Birth country, Sources, Stories, Photos, Research help".
Explanation: Birth country is not fully descriptive. For example, during Austrian Habsburg Empire, your x-grandparent language could be German, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Romanian or several others as well living in ONE country. And languages did indicate your famíly forefather cultural background better than country they lived (or you live now) in. Were you Schwabian Germans living in Transilvania? So you should have an option of German langauage in a Fan Chart, not only "Country" option (Romania or Hungarian Kingdom or Habsburg Empire is a very wide description).
Thank you.
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and how would the system know what language they spoke?
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Well, it would need to be an additional item on the profile, needing to be manually updated, but would seem an intriguing idea. Or would some sort of ethic grouping be more useful?
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To FamilyBible: As AdrianBruce1 mentions, it would need to add to each person the option LANGUAGE SPOKEN - probably many family researchers do know of their predecessors what langage environment they were raised at home. I know of all of my families at least to the level of greatgreatparemts. And beyond - there are mayn indications of language - surnames., written school records etc. (for example, I have one person record in 1620´s: Paulus Staygar, Germanus, Civis, from Tyrnavia region in nowadays Slovakia). Here I know he was born in Austrian Empire (or Hungarian Kingdom, or nowadays Slovakia, but his cultural background or first language used was German).
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