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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tip of the day: Census people
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 22:08:41 -0500
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At 10:03 AM 9/1/02 -0400, Karla Huebner wrote:
>Or even if you don;t add the servants and miscellaneous stray people to
>your dataset, consider putting them in your census memo. I generally say
>something like "The family was enumerated with Joseph Tombas, a 17 year
>old servant born in Hungary."
>
>Karla Huebner

Hi, Karla:

By choosing not to use the "normal" TMG method, which is to create a person
record for Joseph Tombas and connect him to the census tag as a witness,
one cuts oneself off from many of the best features of TMG (current and
future). So even if it works *perfectly* and *exactly* as one expects,
*NOW*, I would still advise against recording "witness info" in a memo field.

Not that I haven't been guilty of doing it myself on occasion [grin].

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois



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