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From: Bob Velke <>
Subject: RE: TMG-L: Things I can't do in TMG
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 09:06:10 -0500

Brian Smith said:

>> The sort date will work, but would like to see a "marriage flag" similar to
>> that of the "birth order" flag. In this way I could order the marriages
>> simply by placing # 1, # 2, etc. in the marriage flag.

You can put "1", "2", etc., in the Sort Date field. I'm afraid that there
are no plans to create a marriage flag (or one for any other event type) in
order to accomplish the same thing.

The purpose of the Birthorder field is not so much to sequence a person
among siblings that you know (although that will work, the Sort Date field
is a better way to do that) but to record evidence of sequence among those
siblings that you may NOT know (e.g., first born child).

>> The report that I was referring to on printing the "Back Reference
>> Generations" was the Ancestors, Journal, Reverse Register Report. As you
>> pointed out it only prints the immediate ancestor.
>> Hopefully this can be enhanced for the next version so that it gives back
>> references to the progenitor like the descendant report.

I think that I said that it only prints the immediate descendant. It seems
to me that there were disagreements about if/how it should do otherwise
when there are multiple lines of descent - but I will put it on the
enhancement list. Thanks.

>> I don't seem to be seeing the same thing you are as far as printing
>> duplicate information. When I print a ancestor report, journal, reverse
>> register, and if I have Stephen Hopkins as an ancestor in 5 of those lines,
>> it prints all the info on him five separate times.

Yes, as I said, it will print the information about the common ancestor
when it encounters him but then it will say "see #xxx" for each of his
ancestors so as to not repeat that information. If that's not what you're
seeing then please send me a copy of your dataset.

>> I spoke to [Dave] Conover on the phone, he looked at the problem,
acknowledged it
>> and said that he would speak to you about it??

Yes, Dave did speak to me about it. It is working as designed but your
enhancement request has been noted. Thank you.

-Bob

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