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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [FTST] Re: Selecting data types in FTST
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:31:53 -0500
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nick wrote:

> Can someone help, please? I have asked this before but annoyingly I
> have accidentally deleted the response over time. I am trying to set up
> a ancestor report in which both birth and baptism dates & places are
> printed. In the data type options I have thus chosen
> 1. Birth* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place and
> 2. Baptism* Abbr Date PlacePrep Place
> but for some reason the baptismal information is not showing.

By doing this you are specifying the _primary_ birth information, and also the _primary_ baptism information. Since birth and baptism are in the same group, only one or the other can be primary for any individual, and thus only on will show in the chart. They are in the same group because in some circumstances users do not have birth information and may chose to use the baptism info as a proxy.

FTST does not allow specification of non-pirmary tags because there can be any number of them for any one person, and it would have no way to "know" which one to print.

Unfortunately, the net result is that you cannot print both the birth and baptism info for the same person.

Terry Reigel

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