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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: RE: TMG-L: Copying a person
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:11:01 -0500

Lorna,

I think I have experienced something similar, and the fix was to make sure
that all the copied events are marked as "primary", if appropriate. So, for
example, if the birth event is one of th ecopied tags, and there is only
one, it should be marked primary. Check that. I think setting it primary is
all you need to do, but you may have to rebuild indexes, etc.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]On Behalf Of
> Lorna McIntosh
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 4:16 AM
> To:
> Subject: TMG-L: Copying a person
>
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get the picklist, and the subject's name line
> to show the correct birth date?
>
> I stumbled across the copy person feature as I was trying to cut down my
> entry time for a case where I had one name, one source (an email) and
> two ages and/or different supposed fathers depending on which of the
> writer's sources you believed.
>
> I unticked all but the individual events from the box and had my copied
> person with birth and source data.
> I then changed the birth date year and added the different father and
> thought "another job done".
>
> Later, looking in the picklist I was rather suprised to see two
> identical people, with the same birth date.
> The birth event shows the different dates but the picklist, even when
> refreshed, shows the original copied dates, not the revised ones.
>
>
> Lorna McIntosh
> Waikanae, Kapiti, NZ
>

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• TMG-L: Copying a person by Lorna McIntosh <>

  • RE: TMG-L: Copying a person by "John Cardinal" <>

  • Re: TMG-L: Copying a person by Lee Hoffman/KY <>