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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] FTM Import and Footnotes
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:26:36 -0800
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On or about 20:36 03/03/04 a carrier pigeon from Gregory Winters delivered:
>footnote is a *separate and distinct* field - it may or may not repeat the
>Source data, Citation data, or Citation text, but regardless, it should be
>allowed to somehow map as a Note attached to its corresponding TMG database
>field (i.e., Name, Birth, Death, etc.). If the FTM user did not have

Ah, but here is where TMG differs... Name, Birth, Death, etc. are
NOT FIELDS in TMG, they are individual event types. "Notes" in TMG would
just be another event, separate and unassociated from other events, having
their own sources/citations, etc.

This leaves just two places for your FTM "field associated note"
to be placed. Either the citation detail for the equivalent TMG event, OR
the Memo text (which /is/ a "field") of that same event. Memo text does
not, depending on report options and sentence templates, generate footnotes
(if the sentence template references a [M] variable, the memo field is
printed at that location; if no [M] is in the template, the report options
have choices for printing inline, inline parenthesis, footnotes, endnotes).

I don't know how FTM handles, at the database level, the
attachment of your "note" to a field but in TMG "fields" are not
addressable. Event records are addressable, and an event record
incorporates all of: event type, principal 1, principal 2, date, sort date,
place ID (it displays 10 place fields, but it only stores a single
pointer/ID to the place table), memo text. pointer to sentence template.
Citations are separate records (different table) containing a reference to
the source, the detail text, surety, and a pointer to the entire event record.

TMG (and the late UFT) are "event-based" genealogy programs. I'm
not sure how Legacy stores data, but practically all other programs are
"family-based". In TMG, the "family" is an artifact resulting from an
individual having parent events; family-based programs don't have
individuals without first creating a family record.

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