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From: "Norb Bankert" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Cust.Marriage sentence in children list-Desc. Rept.
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 00:28:20 -0500
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Cheri, just jump in and try it, I probably made it look a lot more
complicated than it is.

Norb

>
> First, though unrelated, I have changed my default marriage sentence
> to add ages:
> [P] married <, at age [A],> [PO] <, age [AO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <[L]>
> This gives me:
> Lieut. Thomas Winchell; b. 2 Apr 1700 in Windsor, CT; m., at age 25,
> Jemima Owen, age 24, daughter of Obadiah Owen and Christiana
Winchell,
> 11 May 1725 in Simsbury, CT; d. after 1770.
>
> When there are multiple marriages I assign a role in the marriage
tag
> of groom and bride. In the following example, Nathaniel Holcomb
> married twice. In his first marriage I assign roles of groom and
> bride in the marriage tag and then modify the grooms marriage
sentence
> by adding a (1) to the groom sentence:
> [P] married (1)<, at age [A],> [PO] <, age [AO]> <[PARO]> <[D]>
<[L]>
> I do the same for the 2'nd marriage but add a (2) to the grooms
> marriage sentence:
> [P] married (2)<, at age [A],> [PO] <, age [AO]> <[PARO]> <[D]>
<[L]>
>
> This give me:
> Nathaniel Holcomb; b. 4 Nov 1648 in Windsor, CT m. (1), at age 22,
> Mary Bliss, age 19, daughter of Nathaniel Bliss and Catharine
Chapin,
> 27 Feb 1670/71 in Springfield, MA; m. (2), at age 74, Sarah (_____)
> (widow of Josiah Owen) 17 Jan 1722/23; d. 5 Mar 1740/41 in Simsbury,
> CT, at age 92
>
> In the above example, the groom sentence for the 2'nd marriage was
> further modified to add (widow of Josiah Owen). This could be
> accomplished by just adding "(widow of Josiah Owen)" to the grooms
> marriage sentence, however, I took this one step further and created
a
> role of "widow1" and assigned Josiah Owen the role of "widow1". The
> modified groom marriage sentence reads:
> [P] married (2)<, at age [A],> [PO] <, age [AO]>(widow of
[R:widow1])
> <[PARO]> <[D]> <[L]>
>
> The advantage of using a role for "widow of" is that Josiah Owen is
> automaticaly included in the index when I run a report. If I just
> added his name as "(widow of Josiah Owen)" he would not show up in
the
> index.
>
> I am still muddling through and have to admit some confusion. I am
not
> an expert at all in witnesses and roles, but it is very powerfull
and
> I am going to have to play with witnesses and roles more thoroughly.
>
> Hope this isn't too confusing,
> Norb
>
>
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