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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] History Tag
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:59:02 -0500
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Rae Jean wrote:
>Starting to use History Tags. Decided to try the History tag instead of
>using the "non person" tag approach. Like the idea of connecting several
>witnesses to a specific History tag but not sure I understand the intended
>concept.
>
>This is what I have been doing in order to quickly "see" the reason for tag:
>Detail: SANCTIFIED BAND
>Date: aft Nov 1889
>County: Beaufort Co
>State: NC
>MEMO: this is where I explained the history of this group of people
>
>Decided to put the detail field in caps so I would recall it is a history
>tag.... only way I could think to give it a "name." What I would really want
>is to name the History Tag. Then I could have one for all sorts of events,
>houses, military units, etc. The main concern is how to distinguish the
>different tags that are History.
>
>Has anyone come up with ideas on how to accomplish this in a better way?

About all I can suggest is that you create a Custom Flag (N & Y settings
with N being default), and then set the Flag to Y for those persons with
History Tags assigned (use the List of People report's Secondary Output
tab). Then look for that Flag = Y and assign an Accent color to set off
persons that have at least one History Tag assigned.

But keep in mind that a History tag is in a way like a one event
Timeline. So you might consider creating a small Timeline for these
events. A Timeline does not have to be
Then set that Timeline to be Locked on for the persons that are
involved. The Timeline Events can have a special color (Tools=>Options
[Colors tab]) and that would show off the tag well.

Hope this helps -

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