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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: [TMG] TIP OF THE DAY: Incomplete Data
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:00:48 -0500


For years now, I have been trying to find everyone on every census that
they lived during. Finding out who I still needed census data for was
such a pain. Then I decided to create a new role for my census tags
called Incomplete Data. The sentence is currently " - -" for English
(since I tend to use English for journal reports and I don't want blank
or empty tags to print.) and

"[:CR:][:CR:][BOLD:]1790 Federal population census:[:BOLD]
[:CR:]Enumeration Date: < [D]>[:CR:]Enumerated < [L]> [:CR:]Census
Information Not Found [R:Incomplete Data]" for TABULAR. (Since I use
TABULAR for research, and I would want the information to print.)

Now when I find someone that I still haven't found on the census, I can
create a tag and give them the role Incomplete Data. When I need to
make a list of people that I still need to find on the 1850 census, I
merely have to search for everyone with the role Incomplete Data, and I
can then print their IN (using Tabular) and I can take that with me to
research.

This blank role might not be for everyone, but I am finding it very
useful and thought I would share.



Teresa Ghee Elliott

For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries
www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org

For TMG sentences

www.tmgsentences.home-page.org






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