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Subject: Re: TMG-L: Thanks, plus 1 more Q (was Questions from one investigating TMG)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 01:27:03 EDT


In a message dated 6/30/1999 4:03:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

<< Just one more question I meant to ask: can TMG be set to print the
christening date if there is no birth date entered, and burial date if no
death date entered?

FTM 4.0 cannot, so I end up entering an "abt" date in the birth/death field,
which I find misleading when I later look at reports for those persons.
Otherwise those fields are totally blank. >>

Nat,

I understand your problem, my French-Canadians very seldom were born or died
<VBG> they were only baptized and buried. We discussed this on the list some
time ago and some people had some interesting work-arounds. I decided I had
too many people entered to change methods. I feel using christening and/or
burial in place of death can be too misleading. A baptism can take place
months/years after birth and a burial if the death was in the frozen winter
also may take place much later. I use the circa method and add a memo. e.g I
put in the birth tag a memo that says birth based on baptism or birth
calculated from age at death, etc. I have my memos in reports set up to print
with ( ) so the report will read e.g. John Smith was born c 1700 (date of
birth based on baptism). All tags have memos in TMG which allows for much
more flexibility than FTM.
Patt Ricketts
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