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From: "Jill Morelli" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Custom Sentence Question
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:00:44 -0400
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Cheryl,

Would having two separate sentences work? One for the single situation and
one for the multiple.

That's what I have done occasionally when the tense did not read
right....i.e. Num-child tag when there is only one child. (Note: this was
a custom sentence situation.) I think witness sentences are more difficult
to work with because the computer "pointer" is still pointing at the P1 or
P2 person. Even when I think I have it figured out and perfectly good
sentence....and folks even say it should work....it doesn't. I just keep
experimenting until it works.

Hope this helps.

Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Freeman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Custom Sentence Question


> Hi Teresa,
>
> The problem is that I have only one [WO]. When there are 2 or more [WO]
> names, the sentence works, but when there are only 2 people in the
household
> (Head and wife, Head and child, etc.) the sentence reads "Enumerated with
> John Smith WERE Mary Smith".
>
> To be clearer, what I am looking for is a variable so that the sentence
> would work with just one [WO] (Enumerated with John Smith WAS Mary Smith),
> or with two or more [WO] (Enumerated with John Smith WERE Mary Smith and
> Betty Smith). Is there a way to include a variable depending on the
number
> of [WO]?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:47 PM
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Custom Sentence Question
>
>
> > Cheryl,
> > The problem is you don't have any WOs. I think you can make that last
> > sentence < Enumerated with [P] were [WO]> and it will do what you want.
> >
> > Teresa Ghee Elliott
> > Any information I give that you can't find in your version of TMG 5.1 is
> > probably due to customization on my part.
> > For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries
www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org
> > For TMG sentences
> > <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html>;
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cheryl Freeman [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:33 PM
> > To:
> > Subject: [TMG] Custom Sentence Question
> >
> > Last year, I added custom sentences for all my census citations, basing
my
> > sentences off those used by Diane Begeman. I spent many, many hours on
> > this, and was very pleased with the result, until today I noticed that
> when
> > only one other person is in the household with the head, the sentence
does
> > not work. The sentence is:
> >
> > [P1] was enumerated as the head of a household on the census <of [D]>
> <[L]>
> > as < [M]>. Enumerated with [P] were [WO]
> >
> > When only one other person is in the household, the last sentence
becomes:
> >
> > Enumerated with John Smith were Mary Smith.
> >
> > Just wondering if there is a workaround for this that won't take another
> > year to finish. :) I tried to go to the site with Diane Begeman's
> examples
> > and the link is not working.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cheryl Freeman
> >
> >
> >
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