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From: maverik <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT NGS Conference
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 14:51:20 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <005801c0d346$62490d20$57a71518@bdfrd1.tx.home.com>


I think these are all great ideas. Thanks Patricia

At 03:28 PM 5/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>----- Original Message -----
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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.
>:
>:
>:
>: --
>:
>: His Jadedness, Andy; Lord Tofu2u2, Earl of the Jade Stick
>: <A
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>/index.htm</A>
>: "Nec petita nec cupita approbatio tua"
>:
>:

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