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Subject: Re: [TMG] Birth2 Tag (again); Married Name Tag; Creating 'Bogus" person
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:17:09 EST
Jan Roberts wrote:
> Several people have mentioned creating an XYZ Person
> (e.g. a Census Person)
> and I presume this is to somehow assist with linking certain
> data together.
> Could someone please explain the reasoning behind this practise?
I use a census person as an easy way to see at a glance who I've found in
each census that I've checked. In the Census tag, P1 is my census person and
P2 is the Head of household. (It could easily be the reverse, but that is how
I started out.) I put the census data in the Memo and add others in the
household as Witnesses. I use the actual visitation date, so this gives me an
idea of what families lived near each other. My census person's name is
(using 1850 NJ as an example): Prefix = NJ, Given = 1830 US, Surname =
Census. Additionally I enter "census" in the Reference tag at the bottom of
the person view, and have a Non_Person Flag set to Y. (N is the default.) My
census tag Sentence reads: [:CR:][P2] was head of household in the [P1G]
census <of [L]> <with [WO] in the same household> <[M]>. I also have a
census index tag, with the Sentence: [:CR:][P2] was listed in the [P1G]
census index <of [L]> <[M]>. My system isn't as involved as some, but it
seems to work for me.
I also have a cemetery person for each cemetery. By going to the cemetery
person view, I can see who is buried there. Here I've used P1 as the name of
the person in the Burial tag, P2 as the cemetery name with Surname =
Cemetery, Given = name of cemetery. (In cases like "Common Burial Ground",
I've used that as the Given name and "-Cemetery" as the Surname so that
cemetery won't print as part of the name.) My burial Sentence reads: [P1] was
buried <in [P2]> <[L]> <[D]>.
Hope this doesn't just confuse you, but gives an idea of the flexibility of
TMG.
Fran
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