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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Unknown relatives
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:21:11 -0400
References: <24.1465d4be.28488720@cs.com>


wrote:

> My family began in this country in 1643 and along the way and until about
> 1830 we have uncovered a large number of people who we know are related but
> can't find the connection. (I call them my strays) Many of these we have
> considerable knowledge and information about. My question is how do other
> members handle these people?

I include them in my main dataset. I have a flag "Connected" which is normally
set to Yes, but for these "strays" I set it to No. I set them to a distinctive
Accent color so they show clearly on the Picklist. If I want to create reports
for them I can either use the Picklist and accent colors to find them and set up
the reports manually, or use a filter along the lines of Connected=N and father
ID#=0 and mother ID#=0 (for a descendant report).

Terry Reigel

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