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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: [TMG] TIP OF THE DAY: Repository List More
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:41:55 -0600


Jill and others who have tried to follow my train of thought here,



I thought I would share what I have come up with so far on using tags
instead of Research tasks for those of you, who like me would rather use
a tag.



I create the place just like I did when I was using it as a repository.


L1= ROLL NUMBER

L2 =LIBRARY

L3=CITY
L4=COUNTY

L5=STATE

L10=Comments



In L1, I put the FHL (or Archives) Microfilm Roll Number

L2 is the name of the Library or Archives. For our example, it is
Family History Library, but it could be Tennessee State Library and
Archives

L4 is the county where the records were held.

L10 is what is on the roll of film. For our example it is Marriage Book
18, 1902



My sentence reads:



[:CR:][:CR:][BOLD:]MARRIAGE RESEARCH: [:BOLD]

<[:CR:][M]>

<[:CR:][M2]>

<[:CR:] [M3]>

[:CR:]<[BOLD:]COMPLETED: [D][:BOLD]>

[:CR:]<Roll [L1]><[L]>

[:CR:]<[L2]>



I put today's date in when the task is complete and a sort date one day
after the event, so it sorts right after the marriage, but will show the
task as completed today.



It prints

MARRIAGE RESEARCH

I don't know when exactly they married, but it was between 1901 and
1911.

Roll 200306 Davidson County, TN, Marriage Book 18, 1902,

Family History Library



I may have several tags for this marriage, since the marriage books only
cover one to two years, and I haven't determined when they married yet,
but this way as I work through a roll of microfilm, I can make notes to
myself about what I found and then I will be reminded later of what I
looked at this time. Once the marriage record is found, it is easy to
change the role from MARRIAGE (which is what it is now) to
COPIED-MARRIAGE, which would read:



MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE

Photocopy in possession of author.

Completed 03 Nov 2003

Roll 200306 Davidson County, TN, Marriage Book 18, 1902

Family History Library



I hope I am not confusing any newbies with these ideas, but I do which I
had thought to do something like this when I started 13 years ago. <G>
If you are really advanced at TMG, and John's utility, it is possible to
have it add tags for a large group of people at once, so you could
search for everyone that died between a certain time period in a certain
place, and you could have it attach the repository for you for that
group of people. (This is why I went to tags instead of research tasks
<G>)



As I said in an earlier post, I created a separate language in TMG to
use for research type reports. I use the sentences above in that
language, and my English sentences for this tag are --. That way it
only prints when I do a research report, and not on an everyday report.




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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