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From: "George W.King" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Deed Tags
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 10:07:20 -0400


Yesterday Barbara Wentz asked:

> This newbie is slowly, slowly, getting the hang of TMG and has not had
>a question for about 10 days! Got my short-cut icon working, etc.
> Now I am ready to enter a deed tag. I have three previous queries on
>this subject printed out but I really am totally clueless as to what to do.
>I think for the time being I would like to keep it simple and just have a
>grantor and grantee tag. I gather I have to make my own.
> So I click New? Then comes the Tag Type Definition Screen which I am
>afraid looks all Greek to me. Can someone please tell me what to put in
>these fields. Is this the only screen I have to deal with? Hopefully when
>I have done one, I won't be so clueless.

Let me echo Ken Nelson's advice to go easy on the custom tags. For TMG
beginners I urge you to use the EVENt-Misc tag and learn how to make your
memo sentence read well in your reports. You know that you can go to Lee
Hoffman's web page for a report definition for a one generation Genealogy
Report to help you learn how to enter memo and source information so that
they will read well in reports.

Our family association began using TMG with release 1.2 and created quite a
few custom tags. Much later we learned that when you do a GEDCOM to a
cousin, the tags of the GEDCOM type NOTE do not include date or place
information!!! This is part of the GEDCOM definition for NOTE. Needless to
say most of our custom tags were set to the GEDCOM type NOTE.

Hope this helps,

George

George W King
Williamsburg, VA
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