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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Disappearing Details
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 09:45:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000e01c2cac4$79797940$64c70944@ri.cox.net>


On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 09:07:50 -0500, Judy McGann wrote:
>I ran the Descendant Indented Narrative report several
>times and noticed the following problems:
>
>1) left out the city of death even though the information
>was entered;

I assume that the tag is printing other information, such as the
date, but no place information. If so, I suspect the problem is you
have the report options set to a higher surety level than the surety
that has been entered for the place on the death tag. There are some
more obscure possibilities, but this seems the most likely.


>and 2) left out all the godparents which were
>also entered as "father-god and mother-god".

Assuming that you also have the parents of the child entered, and the
Parent/Child tags for those parents are marked as primary, this is
the expected result. Only the primary parents will appear in reports.

The problem is that the father-god and mother-god tags are regular
parent/child tags. If made primary, the program treats them as the
birth parents of the child. If not made primary, they do not appear
in reports. They are really not a good way to record godparents.

It would be better to do that with a tag in the other events group,
perhaps as witnesses to the Christning tag. I don't see a standard
tag that will do that, and haven't recorded godparents myself.
Perhaps someone who has can offer a suggestion for a good way to do
this.

Terry Reigel



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