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From: "Bonita" <>
Subject: [TMG] Primary vs Non-Primary tags AKA 1810 census tag
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 15:15:59 -0500
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I had not paid much attention to 'primary' except when I had two sets of
parents, two dates for death that I found, etc. Then I would select the
one that seemed to be correct and left the others as potentials. I always
thought it was just to get an age calculation, and to ensure the direct line
was correct.

I never worried about primary on anything else (census, etc.) and they
always printed out fine as in my report OPTIONS I selected ALL tags,
not just all primary. From what I understand primary has more to do
with printing restrictions like boxes, etc where only one can be printed.
I am far from an expert at this, but I have never had a problem.

Bonita

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheri Casper" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] 1810 census tag


> The restrictions on having only one primary tag per group is why I create
> *all* new tags in the other category rather than to a tag type that is
more
> appropriately named.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Burgess <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [TMG] 1810 census tag
>
>
> > I am a new kid on the TMG block, in the process of moving here from
UFT.
> Every
> > day I discover new differences in how the two programs handle the same
> data. One
> > that promises to offer lots of editing is TAG's restriction on only one
> primary
> > tag from each Tag Type Group or one primary tag from each Tag Type in
the
> Other
> > Event Tag Type Group.
> >
> > Since census tags are in the Other Event group, you can have one primary
> general
> > census tag, but you can have one each of the 1800, 1810, 1820, etc.
tags.
> If my
> > understanding is correct and since most persons appear in more than one
> census,
> > that is reason enough to use specific-year census - or to create new
tags
> for
> > other events that can occur more than once in an individual's life.
> >
> > Joe Burgess.
> >
> > Cheri Casper wrote:
> >
> > > Is there some compelling reason to use a specific-year census tag
versus
> > > using a general census tag and then putting the year in the date
field?
> > > Please let me know if there is so I can fix this before I start adding
a
> lot
> > > more census information.
> >
> >
>

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