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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Web page creation
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 12:55:41 -0600
References: <NDBBJJMPJKPBEPNBFPGAKEBALAAA.John@JohnCardinal.com>
In-Reply-To: <LDENIDGJNKMFGDHNGHKPIEFDCEAA.dbwing@sasktel.net>


At 12:00 PM 11/2/03 -0600, Don wrote, in response to John Cardinal:
>[snip]
>
>This is the whole problem. The date is fixed. In my county we use the date
>format "mmm dd, yyyy" I also does not produce dates with the provision for
>the differences in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. TMG does this in it's
>reports.

Hi, Don:

I have no problem generating dates in Second Site that meet
my needs, matching my TMG output depending on the options I
have selected. Can you give a specific example?

> > TMG does not store the dates as you entered them (except for
> > irregular dates) but I don't think that is the crux of the issue.
>
>What do you mean by this? If it does not store information as I enter it
>then the program is not of much use is it?

Computer programs do not store dates "exactly as you enter
them" EVER, unless you enter them as text. In TMG, dates
entered as text are known as "irregular dates". Such dates
do not permit date comparisons, calculations, or output
format selection such as "Aug or August", or year only, in
different contexts.

>[snip]
>
>I have 4 generations that are living at the moment. I can get my fathers
>name to show in the output as a living person. Where am I and my children
>and my grandchildren? All I want is for the names to show. Cousins and other
>relations will know where to start to see their ancestors, but what about
>someone else. Eg. an unknown family line that is looking for connections.

I think the whole issue of excluding information on the
living is a thorn in the side of today's genealogists,
but that is a different story. Second Site provides for
charts (pedigree and descendant) that "continue excluded
lines". This is as close to what you are asking as we
can get at the moment, using Second Site.

Darrell


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

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