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From: Linda Gaylord-Kuhn <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] General tags or VERY specific tags?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:31:55 -0600
In-Reply-To: <3E1453E0.1080507@reigelridge.com>


Terry Reiel Wrote:
> Linda Gaylord-Kuhn wrote:
>
> >Hate to tell you this, Stuart, but (being persnickity as usual) I am
> >going to insist that "by" and "before" are different. "By 1800" does
> >include the year 1800 so, if I were inclined to change it, I would
> >change it to "before 1801". As a matter of fact, that's exactly what
I
> >did during my Roots III days. Similarly someone "living 1800" died
> >"after 1799".
> >
>
> Well, then you might as well use TMG's "before" because it works as
you
> define "by." <vbg> Then you could use the custom language feature to
> change "before" to "by."

Terry, your advice sent me straight to the Help file to check up on that
because it was so hard to believe. It says that "after 1975" sorts
_before_ "July 1975" (just one example). <woman's intuition tells me
THIS subject has come up before and I'd better be careful what I say,
however>

That's just plain bizarre.

<Lee, if you're listening, please drag out your Webster's and preach to
me ... I musta missed this sermon.>

Linda


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