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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Divided datasets
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 13:47:08 -0400
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Bob Gillis wrote:
>Daniel Davis wrote:
>
> > All of my information about both my husbands family and also mine is
> entered
> > in the same dataset. I did this so I would be able to print
> information for my
> > children. I have a lot of information to enter-- is there a maximum
> amount of
> > information recommended to go in a dataset?
>
>Practically no. People have data sets with 35,000 people in them

Also there not a few TMG users who have well over 100,000 persons in them.

> > I need to know now while I am "laying the groundwork" for the
> information I
> > will be entering in the future. If we have separate datasets then is
> there any
> > way that I will be able to print anything with the information from both
> > datasets on the same document?
>
>I do not know in Ver 5.

It remains to be seen, but since there may be multiple data sets in the
same project, I would expect that reports will be able to print data from
different data sets. However, in the case of a narrative report, I would
doubt that the same report focus can use data from more than one data set
at a time. Data sets in the same project have no connection. They may be
compared and persons may be copied/moved from one data set to another, but
otherwise there is no other connection.

> > As an example, I have the 300 page autobiography of one of my grt grt
> > grandfathers. He was an itinerant preacher and writes of wandering the
> > streets of Manhattan, and many other adventures, 1830s to 1850s, such
> > a treasure. It is a photocopy made 20 yrs ago. The print is fading
> and will
> > be unreadable before too many more years. Is TMG a place I could put
> this,
> > or is this too much to fit in, and what would be the best way to do
> it? or
> > would it be better to use microsoft word? >
>
>I would first take autobiography to a document conservator who can
>recommend how to best preserve the original and how to make a working
>copy. Then transcribe it into a word processor document which you can
>link to your gggf in TMG as an external exhibit. You can scan the
>document and keep as an image on CD.

For purposes of research or convenience, entering the data in TMG is a good
idea. TMG can help you become better acquainted with your 2G-GF and his
life. Many others have done similar "conversions" of other books. This
is entirely separate from the conservation of the books itself as Bob
discusses and should be about equally important to you.

>Keep all your family in one data set.

While I do this and recommended this for users of v4, some of the reasons I
used then are less important and even moot in v5. Still, I plan that my
main project will contain one data set that will be my main data set. I
may have other (mostly smaller) data sets from time to time for research
and comparison purposes, but the main data set will be the one for all my data.


Lee Hoffman/KY
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