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From: "Bob Sawyer" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Missing Biography Tag
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 16:07:10 -0500


>they're probably related somehow <g>) family. I imported a Gedcom to start
>the set. The import went well, but of course there is some cleaning up to
>do. Not a problem.


Since you used a GEDCOM file, I assume that the data came from other than a
TMG.

>Problem is this: I went to add a biography tag to one of the exsisting
>people, and was surprised to find that there was no biography tag listed!
>Went back to my other data set and looked there, and there was the
biography
>tag, right in the list where it belongs. Went to data set 2 and looked
>again, no biography tag. I looked through the options on the configuration
>tab, and can't see where anything is "turned off", or un-selected. I guess
>I could add my own biography tag, but you can only do that as a sub-type of
>another tag type, right? Doesn't seem like the right thing to do. Anybody
>know where the biography tag went?


My TMG does not have such a tag either, at least not one with a name that
starts with "bio." I believe you need to create one. As far as I know, it
need not be subordnate to another one (source elements need to be
subordinnate).

-- Bob Sawyer

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