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From: Walt <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Immigration Place Record & Tag
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 05:55:39 -0400
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At 12:21 PM 26/06/2003, Teresa Ghee Elliott wrote:
>... I put [my ship] in the Detail and label that SHIP.
>Here is the output template for the place: on the <[Ship]> leaving the
>harbor of <[City], ><[County], ><[State], ><[Country], ><[Postal],
> ><[Phone], ><[LatLong], ><[Temple]>
>
>That prints. Billy Bob immigrated 25 Dec 1911 on the Grand Ship leaving
>the harbor of New York, New York, USA.
>
>I have another tag for the arrival.
>So the narrative might read Billy Bob Jones was born 1889. Billy Bob
>immigrated 25 Dec 1911 on the
>Grand Ship leaving the harbor of New York, New York, USA. Billy Bob
>arrived 14 Mar 1912 in London, England.

At 05:20 PM 26/06/2003, bob gillis wrote:
>Walt wrote:
><snip>
> 1. the ship is logically a place and therefore should be recorded in
> > a place record.
>
>No.
>
> > 2. the ship should logically occupy the highest place level;
> > therefore it should be recorded as a country
> >
>NO!!!! If anything it would be a Detail.
>
>I have many ship records. There are two standard tags, Emigration and
>Immigration and I have made a custom Landed tag. Use the tag which fits
>the source. I include the ship name in the Tag Memo. And if I have both
>departure and arrival information, I include the ship name in the
>Emigration Tag.
>
>Example:
>
>Emigration: Johann Nicholas Reinhardt and Anna Margaretha Gaertner
>emigrated from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on the ship PEARL, 2 Jul
>1751.
>
>Landed: Johann Nicholas Reinhardt and Anna Margaretha Gaertner landed on
>8 Aug 1751 in Halifax Nova Scotia.
>
>You can search on a tag memo contains [?] to find those who cam on any
>ship.


Teresa and Bob

I've taken your advice and am recording my ship data in a better way than I
was before.

Thanks

Walt





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