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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Repeating Citations
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:27:20 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3A50C09D.A4FD5E34@usa.net>


James E. (Jim) Campbell wrote:
>When entering a new person, I like to cite my source for the person and
>the source for the relationship between the person and his/her mother
>and father. So from the Person View, I click on the Subject button and
>enter a citation. Also, from the Person View, I click on the Father
>button and enter a citation and then the Mother button and enter the
>citation as well. (I realize that I can do this once on the enter
>person window, but that is not the point of my question.) No problem so
>far, but sometimes I have more than one source for this information so I
>have multiple citations for each.
>
>Now the problem. When I run a Genealogy Report (Register) the citation
>is shown multiple times. For example, if I have two citations for each
>of the three buttons, the citation reference on the report might read
>"John Smith, 21,23,21,23,21,23" (The six numbers should be
>superscripts.) It would be preferrable that this just read "John Smith,
>21,23".
>
>I understand why it is happening. If there isn't some magic way of
>compacting these numbers, I am willing to live with it in order to be
>able to have a citation for each of these three instances. It is a
>worthwhile (to me) tradeoff, but it would be nice to have the numbers
>shown only once.
>
>And yes, I checked both the v3.x and v4.x reference manuals and didn't
>find this question addressed.

In the Repoprt Definition Screen, (General tab - Publication Tools button)
under Memos/Sources You probably have the options Include Name Sources and
Include Relationship Sources. De-select these and the multiple cites will
go away.

Happy New Year -


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