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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tip of the day: Census people
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:28:44 -0400
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"Darrell A. Martin" wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Adding unrelated people by adding as witnesses is not the "normal" way.
It is one way. I add often add unrelated people in the memo especially
if he has a different surname as is a "fisherman boarder".

If I come across the name later I can do a search for memo contains
"whoever" and find the tag.

What features are we depriving ourselves of?

bob gillis

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