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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Individual Narrative -females parents omitted.
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 11:50:08 -0400
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On Sat, 3 May 2003 11:25:57 -0400, Ron Bernier wrote:

>My question: why are the names of the female's parents
>omitted in TMG. I have tried the Individual Narrative with
>several different females as the focus and the result was
>the same each time. Am I missing something or is this the
>design of the Individual Narrative in TMG?

It is not related to being female, but rather to being the focus
person. The default Sentence Structures in TMG are optimized for
ancestry or descendants narratives, where the focus person's parents
are generally apparent from the structure of the report. When you use
the Individual Narrative, they will not be. The situation is similar
to getting the birth of children to appear in the IN -- the default
structure doesn't do it.

You can change the sentence structures of the marriage tag to produce
the parents of the focus person if you want. But then they will also
appear in other types of narratives, where is it generally duplicate
information. I don't see an easy way of having it appear in the IN
and not in other types of narratives, though I can think of at some
methods that are a bit troublesome to implement.

Terry Reigel



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