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From: "Marianne Halm" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Edit Info for Beginner
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:37:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3B67FECC.527B5BA9@reigelridge.com>


Thanks for this wonderful tip - I have added it as suggested. Also thanks to
all for helping last evening (morning) at 2:00am. I hope there are more tips
like these for beginners who have just merged their data base from another
application. It can become quite overwhelming, and one email is more helpful
than an hour trying to find it in the manual. Or in my case, when I don't
know what I should be looking for. I hope this gets easier, and I get more
proficient.

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Reigel [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:06 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Edit Info for Beginner


Caroline Gurney wrote:
>
> Chuck Wolfram wrote:
>
> <<I've created a CLEAN flag to let me know what persons I've "cleaned" and
> are in correct order. I've included a letter of P in that flag for
"Part",
> meaning that I've worked on correcting that person, but more work is
> needed.>>
>
> Thanks very much for that tip, Chuck. I have also created a CLEAN flag but
> it is often difficult to complete the process at one go, particularly if
the
> person has a large number of tags. Also, however hard I try to work
> methodically, checking one aspect of the data often leads me off down
> another path (changing the way a source is set up globally, looking at &
> amending a relative's tags etc).

I've found a couple of tips that help. First, do the cleanup of the
source definitions separately. Next, do the cleanup of tags for each
individual in an orderly way - I do Name, Parents, then all the tags
in the center, in the order they appear (except child tags - those are
cleaned as Parent tags when I get to the children). When working with
a group of people, work in an orderly fashion - with families where I
have many children, I do parents first, then work down through
children. But with a string of ancestors showing mostly the direct
line, I work up the tree view, doing the upper line first, then
gradually working each line below.

But most important, use the accent colors. Start with whatever accent
plan you like, but put CLEAN=N first, and make it a really ugly color.
Then, you can't see the accents you want until you clean up the people
involved - a great incentive to progress. And, this helps much in the
orderly cleanup of families as described above - you can see in any
view who has been cleaned, and who hasn't.

Terry Reigel


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