Managing Sub-Projects under Families of the Philippines

From Private User: "Hi Mona. With your permission, I would like to start a sub-project under The Families of the Philippines. It would probably be named Cagayan de Oro Families of the Philippines. I'm going to introduce Geni to some people in my home city. -LipLip"

Hi Liplip. I also have been pondering on sub-project dedicated to geographies for some time. As with all other projects in this study, I wanted to take a scholarly approach and enforce "repeatable" standards. Here are some of my thoughts:

- Which geographical area should we use? City or Town level seems logical. Never baranggay or province level. Title syntax: "The Families of <Place>, Philippines"

- In a sub-project dedicated to a city/town/province, how would you assign the surnames indigenous to a place? For example, a prominent politician can be from a particular region; but was born and raised somewhere else. A solution to eliminate migrants, is to display ONLY surnames of OLD LANDED GENTRY and INDIGENOUS MONARCHS. I would also like to steer clear from political surnames attached to a locale (UNLESS they own land), as it might serve a partisan purpose.

- On the creation of the page itself, what should one display?
--- A section on the ESTABLISHMENT and HISTORY of the town, written with scholarly references.
--- A section on surnames which link out to existing Surname Sub-Projects.
--- A section on heritage homes, which link out to external sites.

I am NOT yet decided on whether individuals profiles should be included in a Geography Sub-Project or if it should be purely directional. On one hand, the Claveria decree of 1849 resulted in many people from different places having the same surname. On the other hand, tagging profiles for Surname, Accomplishment AND Location may be too cumbersome to implement across all the projects.

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Hi Mona,

I'll reply on this on the weekend. :)

Hi Mona,

- Which geographical area should we use? City or Town level seems logical. Never baranggay or province level. Title syntax: "The Families of <Place>, Philippines"
---- I agree with City/Town level. I agree also with the title syntax.

- In a sub-project dedicated to a city/town/province, how would you assign the surnames indigenous to a place? For example, a prominent politician can be from a particular region; but was born and raised somewhere else. A solution to eliminate migrants, is to display ONLY surnames of OLD LANDED GENTRY and INDIGENOUS MONARCHS. I would also like to steer clear from political surnames attached to a locale (UNLESS they own land), as it might serve a partisan purpose.
--- I very much agree with this. Surnames only of old landed gentry and indigenous monarchs.

- On the creation of the page itself, what should one display?
--- A section on the ESTABLISHMENT and HISTORY of the town, written with scholarly references.
--- A section on surnames which link out to existing Surname Sub-Projects.
--- A section on heritage homes, which link out to external sites.
------- I agree with the establishment and history of the town with scholarly references. About the section on Surnames, that might be tedious on our parts replicating across all of the sub-projects.

On the individual profiles: Let's give the owners free hand to make their own project on their own families. We might suggest how they would go about making their own projects.