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From: "Jim Byram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:54:06 -0500
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Greg,

Re: The Master Source List problem. This is a known problem when you start
the MSL in the More mode and will be fixed in the next update. Start the MSL
in the less mode and you won't see the problem.

> TMG does not recognize the
> Footnotes field in the FTM application when importing directly.

That's correct. The Footnotes field in FTM is not intended to be a data
field.

> First, it requires that all Citations have Sources.

That's correct. The citation is a link between a name/event and a source. If
you don't have a source, you can't have a link.

> Well, I guess this only addressed half the issue. Now, it seems that for
> each footnote created, I also have to have a clone citation (with text).
In
> other words, I cannot have a Source citing a Footnote - I have to have a
> Source which cites a Citation which cites a Footnote. <sigh>

Sources don't cite footnotes. Citations don't cite footnotes. The footnote
is the expression of the combination of the source and citation which
appears in reports.

FTM allows you to enter source data and citation data. It then uses that
data to create a footnote. With the Footnote field, it allows you to edit
the footnote for report output.

> Why did all this come about?

This is the standard practice for all genealogy database programs.

> All footnotes *are* the notes and comments.

They were never intended to be.

> It's my understanding that only Sources can be combined when displaying a
> report, not Citations.

The footnote/endnote is a combination of a source plus a citation. TMG
report output allows multiple footnotes or endnotes to be combined into one
paragraph under one footnote/endnote number.

> Thus, if I have a family of 10 who appear all on the
> same roll of microfilm in a Census, then although the Source data can be
> combined, if I have separate comments for each one of the family members,
I
> am forced to repeat the specific Citation detail for each and every one of
> them so that my comments will appear in the Endnotes of the report.

If the citation detail differs, separate footnotes/endnotes will be
generated (depending on the Ibid setting on the Output form tab of the
source definition).

You basically chose to enter your data in FTM in a non-standard way to
control how sources were output to reports. Which is fine. Now that you are
trying to move your data out of FTM to another program, those practices have
come back to bite you.

Jim

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