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From: "Cheryl Chasin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Add-a-Name Express
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:48:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: <BAY4-DAV117xErpp767000147e9@hotmail.com>


I like that a lot. I've been trying to train myself to always enter the new
names first (I have a separate Name tag for each census) but I'm a slow
learner.

Cheryl Chasin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Armstrong [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:49 AM
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> Subject: [TMG] Add-a-Name Express
>
>
> I'm entering a census record. I've linked the household
> members as witnesses. But Mary Carrick is listed in this
> census as Molly Kerrick. It would be incorrect for a report
> to say that the household included Mary Carrick, so I need to
> close the census tag, go to Mary Carrick, add a Molly Kerrick
> name tag, then go back to the census tag and find Mary and
> select Molly for her name for that tag. Isn't there an easier way?
>
> a. I could change the tag sentence to indicate the household
> included persons "identified as ..." so that I wouldn't
> necessarily have to list the name as written. (I've
> considered that option -- it would simplify tag entry, and
> the name-as-written is in my citation detail anyway for
> reference -- but the sentence would be rather awkward.)
>
> b. or maybe Bob could add an Add-a-Name Express feature,
> whereby one could "Add a name-tag for this tag". I know that
> from a programming viewpoint this is a little tricky --
> adding a tag from within a tag -- but it sure would make life
> simpler. The feature would have to be available for all
> principals and witnesses within a tag, and it would by
> default select the newly-entered name tag(s) for the event
> being entered, and link the same citation to the nametag(s) also.
> In practice, the drop-down list of names for each
> principal/witness would include "add new name", or else there
> would be a button beside the name field for adding a new name.
>
> Anybody else like this idea?
>
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