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From: Elizabeth Churchett <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Disappearing Details
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:53:04 -0600
References: <200302021446.h12EkJ905104@twelve.apptechnc.net>


I posed a similar question a couple of weeks ago and received the
following answer from Joe Makowiec:

"Your best bet is to do one of two things:
1) Add the godparent as a witness or role to the baptism tag.
2) Create a custom "Godparent" tag in the Other group.

Either method will print date, location, etc information in both
parties' reports. "

And then added onto that with this:

"I use both methods- a witness is used if the person is in the database
and the custom G-Parents I made is used if the person will not be in the
database."

I thought the last was a good point since some of my cousins do have
godparents outside of the family, and I don't really want to add those
people into my database. You can play with the sentences for the
godparents when you add them as witness so that you don't have to say
whether or not the person was physically present at the
baptism/christening ceremony--could say something like "[R:Godfather]
was named godfather."

--Elizabeth
Austin, Texas

Terry Reigel wrote:

>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.
>
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>>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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