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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] A little advise please
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 16:54:56 -0400
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Caroline Gurney wrote:
>
> I use the Individual Narrative (IN) report more often than any other. By
> making extensive use of customised Memos, I can produce a readable biography
> of an individual direct from TMG. However, such a biography is meaningless
> without including the births (and deaths) of children.
>
> Some people have suggested using a one-generation Journal report as an
> alternative but this is not at all the same thing. The BMDB events are all
> lumped together in the first paragraph, completely messing up my carefully
> ordered narrative, and the children are listed at the end, not included as
> part of, and at the appropriate place in, the narrative.
>

There have been a number of requests for a Journal Narrative where the
events are in chronological order. The present formats follow the
NEHGR, Register, TAG, the American Genealogist and one other. Bob Velke
has not said that this type of report cannot or will not be done.

bob gillis

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