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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:27:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: <B1006096405@hdflem01.fl.hostdepot.net>


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:05:17 -0500, Gregory Winters wrote:

Greg,

I see that Jim, who obviously knows lots more about the current
version of FTM than I do, has addressed the issue of footnotes in FTM
source notes (the option you used did not exist in the last version of
FTM that I used). So it appears than my suggestion to look in the
Comments section of the source definition is misdirected.

Terry

> I have indeed opened the Citation Detail and this is
> where I expected to find the text of the Citation (as I
> indicated in the example I sent you). However, the
> Citation Detail is blank. I *have* attached text to the
> source itself in the past, but I quit doing this because
> I was unable to figure out how to get that source text
> printed in Citation footnotes. For example, Since the
> Descendant Narrative is my sole object of work at this
> point, I wanted folks to be able to read things about the
> U.S. Census related to the early generations, thus the
> description of the Census in that footnote I sent you.
> Even if I have misplaced this text in terms of what it is
> supposed to be according to accepted genealogy
> documentation standards, (i.e., it should have been used
> as supplementary text for the original source), it still
> should appear in the Citation Detail, but it doesn't.
> (Interestingly, I *did* properly do this for the 1790
> Census, but that is missing from my Source List in TMG.
> I stopped doing this because FTM doesn't allow enough
> space in the Comments field to attach enough
> supplementary text. There are 29 Sources in my FTM file,
> but only 26 imported into TMG. However, the import log
> shows 'no errors' when the import is finished.)



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