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From: "Jan Roberts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] FILTER problem
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:58:57 +1100
References: <001c01c0a278$db2b5800$25fc5ecf@casper>


I agree with Cheri - I find it very confusing when events don't sort
logically. I know there are always exceptions to the rule (my late first
husband's sister was born after her father's death, I have a fellow
researcher on one line who only married her partner many years after their
children were born etc.) but logically I like to see marriages coming before
births, deaths after etc. One of my particular *complaints* is when married
name tags are automatically created - based on the marriage date - and they
appear before the marriage tag. Means an automated process which saves time
(great) defeats its purpose because you have to then manually edit the tag
to give it a sort date after the marriage date. I have also mentioned
before the situation where a daughter / son-step relationship tag (therefore
having no sort date facility, and no facility to enter the actual date
either) shows the incorrect age of the step-parent at the event, and also
sorts incorrectly. In my case, it shows I became a step-mother at age 13
because the *event* is tied to my step-daughter's birth date. And even
though I became a step-mother to my step-son on the same day it shows that I
was 19 when that *event* happened. And both of these *events* sort before
my first marriage, because they are linked to the birth dates of the
children. So I have had to create *Other* tags to deal with these events,
but the incorrect age information / sequence of events still appears because
I have to retain the daughter / son-step relationship tag to enable the
relationship to show up.
I certainly don't want to appear to be critical of Bob or of TMG (I
sometimes think Bob must wish he'd never developed TMG when he is bombarded
with *why can't it do....?*), but as he is so willing to try to accommodate
users' wishes then we should be able to feel free to make those wishes known
in the sense of it being constructive criticism.
(By the way, I turned off the option to be asked if I want to create a
married name, assuming it would do it automatically if I said I didn't want
to be asked each time. Now it doesn't create a married name, so how do I
turn that option back on?)
Cheers,
Jan

----- Original Message -----
From: Cheri Casper <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] FILTER problem


> I don't think so.
>
> When I took history back in the Dark Ages in high school, I studied events
> in the order they occurred.

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