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From: "tanari" <>
Subject: [TMG] Two word last names
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:12:10 -0800
References: <B1006754005@hdflem01.fl.hostdepot.net>


Hello all,
One quick question...How do I get TMG to recognize and index VAN HOOSAN, instead of indexing it as HOOSAN?

Thanks,
Tiffany
Still converting my thoughts from FTM to TMG one painful step at a time.
"A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done."
-Cardinal Newman

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tanari/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Winters" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:57 AM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: FTM Import and Footnotes - Just Footnotes


> Thanks, Terry. What you're saying (in effect) is that this type of data is
> not standardized the way that other elements of a record are (e.g., Name,
> Birth, etc.) I guess we need to push for its inclusion into the GEDCOM
> schema. As I mentioned before, a footnote is a critical and completely
> valid reporting element. Not allowing for footnotes - either their
> creation, display, importing, or exporting - is the same (to me) as not
> allowing for capital letters on Names.
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Reigel [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:33 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: FTM Import and Footnotes - Just Footnotes
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:01:16 -0500, Gregory Winters wrote:
> > Terry:
> >
> > You and Jim Byram have detailed approaches to create these footnotes
> > (which I am going to try out using various reports). What will these
> > workarounds look like in a GEDCOM export? As I mentioned in a
> > previous note, I would have to have to go through this all over again
> > with a third product. Thanks.
> >
> Greg,
>
> Without testing, I believe the pseudo-source will export to GEDCOM, but will
> look like a source citation. Not sure what it would look like on import - I
> suppose that depends on the importing application.
>
> I'd think the memo approach would export provided the tag type was one in
> which the GEDCOM spec expected a memo output. Import results again depend on
> what the importing application did with that tag type.
>
> I'd guess neither is likely to look after import as it did in TMG, though I
> guess that the pseudo-source approach might have a better chance.
>
> Terry
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