Help migrant category template syntax?

Question

Am I able to use a migrant category template involving mutliple entity sub-categories such as the following? If not what is highest level of detail I could achieve and how would it be formatted?

<nowiki>{{CategoryInfoBox Migration</nowiki><br />

<nowiki>|fromCountry= Ireland</nowiki><br />

<nowiki>|fromEntity= Province of Ulster</nowiki><br />

<nowiki>|fromEntity= County Donegal</nowiki><br />

<nowiki>|toCountry= Colonial America</nowiki><br />

<nowiki>|toEntity= Province of North Carolina</nowiki><br />

<nowiki>|toEntity= County of Orange</nowiki><br />

<nowiki>}}</nowiki><br />

Answer 1

no, that is not the way it is done. Each level is created separately.

Here is one already set up for Donegal to Province of Pennsylvania.https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Migrants_from_County_Donegal_to_Province_of_Pennsylvania. The province is the lowest level used, not the county.

If you need Donegal to North Carolina, I'll set it up. You can look at how it's set up in edit mode in the category page.

Done:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Migrants_from_County_Donegal_to_Province_of_North_Carolina

Comments

Natalie, thank you. That helps and gets me halfway there. What you created will work, but I was looking for something with more precision than province/state at the "Entity" level like this:

From Entity: Category:Barony_of_Raphoe_South,_County_Donegal

To Entity: Category:Orange_County,_Province_of_North_Carolina

If that is not possible within the existing category templates for migrant/emigrant/immigrant then I will figure out a work around. I just don't want to create any new categories, just utilize the existing ones.

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hi RL, the problem wiith creating categories as specific as you wish is strictly one of numbers, creating a category for one or two people just isn't needed or wanted.  

What you can do is put specific location categories for birth place and marriage & death places, which get outlined in the bio.  For example, your profile would have died in say ''Brownville, Orange county, Province of North Carolina'' (imaginary, don't have a clue where he died).  There are likely way more people who have BMD in such a specific location.

Answer 2

Hi Rl.  I am a member of County Cavan team and very interested in your question.

I support the previous answers from Natalie and Danielle. There is some argument for keeping the migration entities broad and high level in order to search for connected families from one parish or townland and closely related.

Wikitree+ can be used to search for both the broad 'migration entity' and the narrower 'Parish (in Ireland)' or 'County (in USA)' at the same time.

I am starting to wonder whether it is possible to create a Free Space Page to answer your question; rather than a category. Rather than trying to teach Wikitree+ to everyone, I imagine that the required commands could be embedded into the FSP.

This question will not go away so I'm going to start testing this concept.