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From: "Bonita" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT NGS Conference
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:28:00 -0500
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Patricia:

When I first started .. since I am not good at reading manuals ... I created
a dataset with myself. Then I added every tag, flag possible for me ..
every time I moved, awards, religion, two baptisms, etc. I made sure I used
the witness by adding my children to the residencies, etc. I clicked on
every command, button, etc. and noted what it did.

I must say that I did not pay any attention to the sentence structures when
I input the data and now the I need to modify them as I put important data I
wanted to appear on the screen in DETAIL rather than Memo.

I would also look at Jim Cardinal's TMG Utilities as this will also give you
some insight to what it can do. NAME-MAR was always tricky for me but I
liked the way Jim's utility did it .. gave me both the married and maiden
name on the picklist and a way to differentiate if the name was a Miss or a
Mrs.

Bonita
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT NGS Conference


: In a message dated 5/2/01 11:44:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
: writes:
:
:
: > Most of them have their own
: > preferences for a genealogy program so I couldn't expect them to buy
: > another genealogy program just to do this work, no matter how much I
love
: > it.
: >
: > I would welcome any suggestions on how to make it easier and quicker to
get
: > the basics into TMG.
: >
: > Patricia
: >
: >
: >
: >
:
: I have a similar project I'm thinking of taking on. My solution will be to
: write a data entry/sourcing "manual" for them and have everyone get a copy
of
: PAF and input the data into that then send me a copy of the PAF file which
: I'll import into TMG. The files will be kept small so that I can easily
: monitor the input and "coach" them in style, etc.
:
:
:
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