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From: Bob Velke <>
Subject: Re: Re: [TMG] Witness and Roles and V5.0
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:47:48 -0500
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020201101637.074610b0@mail.hwrd1.md.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <002501c1ab4e$645c3d90$f5f006d1@charliexi>


Jim said:

>Ideally, for census most of us want to accomplish what TMG allows in reports
>with the role specified and we can do that in narrative reports but
>not in GEDCOM output.

Yeah, well? You want to do something that GEDCOM is not capable of
doing. Is that my fault <g>? How can I help you?

> > It is a backward argument to change the nature of genealogical data in
> > order to overcome the fact that a particular transfer medium doesn't
> > support it.
>
>That argument was never intended.

I think that some people don't see it as changing the nature of the data
(i.e., corruption) - but that's the problem <g>. If you link a person to
an event in any way OTHER than is supported by GEDCOM and then ask TMG to
preserve that link through GEDCOM, then there's only one way to do that -
and that would be to corrupt the data.

-Bob

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