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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG 5.7 Sources & Footnotes
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:25:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <000e01c33f32$f89513a0$01ce3144@valoriesdesktop>


Valorie wrote:
>I've moved my data from UFT (which I hadn't learned completely), and am
>now struggling with TMG 5.7. My question concerns entering
>sources. First, here's what happened in UFT: I attached sources to all
>events possible; many of them came from the same book. At some point, I
>sent a Family Journal to Word and found I had 32 pages of sources (lots &
>lots of Ibids!).

You can "turn off" the use of ibids in TMG for a report or for any one
Source.by selecting to disable ibid. This means that when you have two
adjacent citations that are the same, the second will use the Short
Footnote form instead of ibid.

>So I decided to eliminate all the sources from the particular book, and
>intended to write a forward to explain where the information of the
>particular family came from, where the books could be located, as well as
>the fact that they (2 Vols) were indexed.

As Bob Gillis mentioned, there is the possibility of selecting to use the
"Unique" option found under Endnotes in the Sources tab of the Report
Definition screen (options tab).

>My question now is--is this same thing going to happen in TMG? I'm
>entering a lot of new people, attaching a source to each person, and the
>BMDB tags. But maybe I shouldn't be doing that. Would appreciate some
>advice, please?

Yes, very likely. The alternative is as Bob Gillis mentiones (a) a Source
for each piece of data, (b) a single "generic" Source that include the
different data (subject name, volume, page number, etc.) in the Citation
Detail of the Source Citation screen. This last may still have a number of
ibids, or (c) select the Unique option an noted above.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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