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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Long discourse on GEDCOM and witness data
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:15:38 -0500
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Richard Damon wrote:
>GEDCOM output could be set to several different levels.
>
>Basic output level would be similar to what we have now, but any tags not
>marked compatible with basic GEDCOM would be excluded. These tags would be
>any tag which connect two or more people other then by familial
>relationship. Tags would only be generated for the principals as they are
>now.

This is already available in TMG.

>Intermediate output level would output a tag for every Key Participant. Thus
>a census tag could exist once in TMG and generate multiple tags in GEDCOM.
>The event-type definition would need to indicate if the tag should be put
>into a family if it exists, or possible create a family (like a marriage
>group tag). Otherwise tags would not be linked together as GEDCOM has no
>support for this. An enhancement might be to allow specifying differing
>GEDCOM output tags for each role. Non-key participants (like Witnesses)
>would be ignored.

This may be done in TMG now.

>Advanced output level (if implemented) would output a tag for every
>participant (for non-key participants it would likely be just a note) with a
>note attached with a sentence built like a report.

This may be done in TMG now if the _user_ enters the information into Tag
Memo fields. Bob Velke has specifically stated that he does not plan to
create narrative data for placement into GEDCOM as he feels that this would
reduce the integrity of the data. But if the user entered the narrative
data, then the integrity theoretically would not be reduced. (I say
"theoretically" because of (1) entry error and (2) how another program
interprets the data (_if_ it does).

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