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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Record Family Reunion Attendance
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:06:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000c01c32893$bc507980$5b907618@wineslap>


At 06:15 PM 6/1/03 -0500, wines wrote:
> I'm looking for suggestions for how to record attendance at family
>reunions. The Brown reunion is held annually, and my father and others have
>been going to them for over 80 years. I started out with individual tags
>for each year, but that gets pretty redundant. Can I just make one tag &
>add the years into the memo field? Or does anyone have any better ideas?
>
>I saw a reference to "LIST Byram Reunion 1999" in GTMOOTMG (page 95, in the
>Sources chapter), and I now do have the "Brown Reunion Attendance Book" as a
>source, but am just puzzled as to how to record the tag(s).
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Linda Brown Wines

Hi, Linda:

Although I haven't entered them yet, I have a number of records of annual
family reunions held by the DUTTON family of Springfield, Vermont, in the
1930s through 1960s. For reasons of consistency and analysis, I will stick
with the one Tag per year approach, with the date in both the Tag date
field and in the sort date field. With only one "umbrella" Tag, which can
of course have only one sort date, I would lose the ability to see the
attendance events in the Person View in the correct chronological order,
among many other things.

My suggestion is to take the same approach that you do with other
repetitive tags, such as census events. You may have to edit the final
output to create a more fluid narrative.

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/

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