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From: maverik <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Text Files into TMG
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 14:38:56 -0700
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I hadn't thought about doing the search on the Text Tag. Good idea.

Thank Patricia

At 01:38 PM 5/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Just a thought, if you add the info in a TEXT Tag [memo field] as Teresa
>suggested, then you can do a search on "Text Tag, Memo Field contains _____"
>to find references to a particular person or surname. This would work even
>if you do NOT use the witness feature. Might save you some time until you
>can get facts entered as you would ideally like them to be.
>Rae Jean in Tennessee
>
>
>----- From: maverik <>
>: Teresa, I have been adding the text files as an exhibit. This does not
>get
>: all of the children into TMG. A lot of these ancestors had 20- 30 kids
>and
>: time wise I haven't been able to get the kids into TMG.
>:
>: One of my duties is to provide lineage files to new members and answer
>: research questions from members. This has meant searching the text files
>: looking for connections. That is why I just want to get all the names and
>: basics into TMG to make the searching easier.
>:
>: Thanks for your input. A Text tag might be a better way since I could add
>: witness's.
>: Patricia
>:
>: At 12:48 PM 5/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
>: >Patricia,
>: >This might not be what you have in mind, but I created a TEXT tag. If
>: >someone sends me a journal narrative about an ancestor, and I already
>have
>: >some but not all the information, I copy the text to the memo field of
>the
>: >TEXT tag. Now if someone else want information on that line, I can send
>the
>: >text along. As I enter the information and source into TMG, I then
>delete
>: >the original TEXT tag. But at least the information is there and linked
>to
>: >the correct person.
>: >Teresa Ghee Elliott
>: > List Owner
>:
>:

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