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From: "pan" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Enhancement Request--P2 surety when adding spouse
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 16:32:00 +0300
In-Reply-To: <396109F4.18A71964@bellatlantic.net>


I strongly support Timothy's request for automatically entering the same
surety value for both P1 and P2. I agree it is a minor matter, however,
often in life it is the minor matters that irritate most. Particularly in
this case where it really is difficult to understand the reasoning why only
one surety value is set automatically.

It certainly must be a strange case where the surety would be different for
the two participants in a marriage. I believe the majority (95%?, 99%?) of
the cases where I enter a marriage and I enter both persons, this is based
on a single document (i.e., the same citation would apply for both), and
certainly the surety level of this would be the same for both spouses. And
which of the spouses you start with is just chance, isn't it?

The only exception that comes to mind is where I enter a marriage by
inference from other data like when a child's father is mentioned in one
document and its mother in another. And then I would have two different
citations and the above would not apply. (But since they might not actually
be married - they may not necessarily be, you know - I put the surety level
at 0 (or at least not higher than 1) for both, again the same surety level
for the marriage event even with different citations.)

So, on the wish list for 5.0 (or earlier?)

Per Arne Nerseth


-----Original Message-----
From: bob gillis [mailto:]
Sent: 04 July 2000 00:48
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Enhancement Request--P2 surety when adding spouse


Yes this a minor inconvenience but personnally I would rather have the
P1 surety blank as it may be different than the name/relationship surety
TMG uses. TMG does not know what surety to put in for P2.

Also you have to open the citation to add the sureties for the date,
place and memo.

bob gillis

Timothy Shipe wrote:
>
> This is a very minor enhancement request, but one that I think could save
a
> lot of keystrokes and mouseclicks; I wonder if other users think it would
> make sense:
>
> When you add a spouse, after you save the initial information about the
new
> person, a screen appears for a marriage tag citing the same source as was
> used for the initial information. The same surety is assigned to P1 as
was
> entered on the previous screen. It seems to me that the same default
> surety should be given to P2. I almost always add this P2 surety
manually,
> and can think of only a few cases where a source for a marriage would not
> have the same surety for P1 and P2.
>
> As things now stand, the default P1 surety doesn't save me any time, since
> I have to open the source screen to add a surety to P2 in any case. If
> defaults were provided for P1 and P2, I could simply save the marriage tag
> without opening the source.
>


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