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From: Martha Grenzeback <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Obits the Right way?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:32:04 -0600
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Since I have an obsessive nature, I enter virtually all the info I find in
an obit. If it relates to the funeral (pallbearers, funeral home, etc.), I
put it in the funeral tag (and I would probably give pallbearers a witness
role, since they are often relatives, neighbors or close friends). If it
relates to the death itself ("so-and-so did not eat or drink for 8 days
before his death but bore his illness bravely" etc.), I put that in the
memo of the death tag. If it relates to organizations the person belongs
to eg Masonic Lodge #123, I make a tag for that (I use Association). If
the info doesn't seem to fit into the usual tags, I use the Note tag.

THEN--using an idea from someone on this list (can't remember who--I think
a couple of people, and thanks again!), I ALSO have an OBIT tag, where the
sentence is: An obituary for [PG] was published <[M1]> <[D]> <[L]>. <It
read: [M2]> The first part of the memo is "in [the name of the
newspaper]"; the second part (separated from the first in the memo field by
double pips ||) is a transcription of the obituary itself. I like this
system better than attaching the obit as an exhibit, since I often want
obituaries to print in a report, but do not necessarily want other exhibits
to print. If I don't want the obits to print, I just don't select that tag
under the report definition options. I'm very happy with this system!

Martha Grenzeback


At 03:44 PM 29-01-2002 -0600, Steve Alvarez wrote:

>First I would like to thank Patt, Cheri, Richard and John with their help in
>my import from FTM to TMG. I am running a test and playing with the features
>at this time.
>
>A little background:
>I have an extreme amount of obits (400-500) in my files. I was fortunate
>enough in that three of my surnames settled in one farming community and
>there has been a newspaper in existence since about 1902 for this area.
>Plus these families being Czech, they tended to marry within their community
>and isolated themselves from anything outside of the Czech community from
>about 1871 to 1930.
>
>I am wondering about the best way to handle the misc. information in the
>obits? And I am hoping there is someone on this list who can give me some
>advise.
>
>Should I create a new tag for the obit information? Should I put such things
>like the Rosary, visitation, priest, pallbearers and funeral home in the
>burial memo?
>
>Any thoughts on this subject would be welcomed.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Steve


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