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From: "Huebner, Karla T (HUEB)" <<A HREF="mailto:"></A>>
Subject: TMG-L: RE: tmg-l Primary tags in reports
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:12:42 -0700


I either print out charts or narratives. Charts, as someone already said,
are where the "primary" tags are most useful. For narratives, I never print
only primary tags, or I would lose most of my data. While I'm not wild about
having 3 or 4 birth dates/places print for the same person, erroneous
information can be excluded or (as I'm starting to do) you can have the
sentences say things like "In the X genealogy, he was erroneously listed
as..." and "The 1880 census taker misspelled her name as" and "Other
evidence disproves this date." This allows me avoid creating Residence9 and
Anecdote15 tag types.

Karla Huebner

> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:11:55 -0500
> From: "David L. Hanna" <>
> Subject: TMG-L: Use of "Primary" tags in reports
>
> One solution, that was mentioned on the list, is to create multiple tag
> types with names like TaxList1, TaxList2, Migrate1, Migrate2, etc. Then
> each tag type can have a "Primary" designation.
>
> Census tags are not a problem if the "Census" person approach is used
> because each census tag will have a different "person" as one of the
> principles and all can be "Primary".
>
> Another approach would be to use surety as the controlling factor in
> determining what should be included, but that seem to defeat the main
> purpose of using Primary designations for names and dates.
>
> I would like to know how are others are handling this situation? Any
> suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Dave
> - --
> David L. Hanna
> Georgetown, Texas
>
>
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