Tags and Hashtags






Hashtags allow us to group people.
For example, we can group all the people who worked on Berwick Street, Soho, London.
Person  ⟶  Tags  ⟶  #Hashtag 

Individual profile in augean.com displaying the Tags menu over a census record to manage custom genealogy metadata.




Enter the Hashtag "Berwick", as Harry Sitch worked on 48 Berwick Street in London.

Dialog box in augean.com showing the custom hashtag Berwick being assigned to an ancestor for grouping by shared locations.




Right Click  ⟶  Change Displayed Columns  and add the  Hashtag  column to the table

Data table and context menu in augean.com showing how to add a HashTag column to the grid for grouping family tree records.




The Hashtag is searchable, and can allow us to group people with the same tag together.
In this example, both Ronald and Harry worked at 48 Berwick Street, Soho, London.
(You don't have to display the Hashtag column for it to be searchable.)

Filtered individual table in augean.com showing a search for berwick to isolate ancestors grouped by that custom hashtag.




Other useful tags are  WWW ,  Todo ,  Status .
The tags are accessed through  Person  ⟶  Tags 

Close-up of the Tags menu in augean.com displaying item counts for research tasks and custom metadata on an ancestor record.


These tags can be added as columns to the table, using  Right Click  ⟶  Change Displayed Columns 

Column customization window in augean.com allowing genealogists to add custom tracking tags like TODO to their data tables.