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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Spouses even though no marriage shown?
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:55:22 -0400
In-Reply-To: <8db19fc74c.tim@south-frm.demon.co.uk>


Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
> > As John said, you can use TMG5 Utility to add Marriage tags to those
> > couples who have children but no Marriage tags.
>
> This I have done and it works well. It took only a few seconds to do
> three thousand couples.
>
> > This leaves those couples who had no data to support a marriage in
> > Generations and who have no children. Those need to be dealt with by
> > hand. You can generate a list in Generations and a list in TMG to
> > compare and determine those couples who need to have a Marriage tag
> > added.
>
> As I have previously reported the time it will take to do this makes the
> task infeasible for me. And I asked if there were any alternatives.
>
> The obvious option is to get Gen Bridge to recognise the Marriage
> Status correctly.
>
> As an alternative I have started to see if I can use John Cardinal's
> Utility to repair things. Apparently there is a facility to create
> events from a file. One can create Marriage events. I think I can
> make a file from Generations of the IDs of couples who have no marriage
> data and no children either (this is proving difficult and requires
> loads of transformations within Excel to pick up both person IDs).
> Fortunately TMG copies the ID numbers from Generations so such a file
> will be valid. Does anyone reckon that I will be able to set Marriage
> tags in this way?

Tim,

You should be able to add Marriage events with the Add Events feature in TMG Utility. I suggest you experiment on a copy of your project and make sure you are happy with the results before you do anything to the production version of your project. The "Log Only" feature can help, but I think actually adding the events to a copy of the project is a better idea. That way, you can inspect the results in TMG to make sure you are happy with the results.

I'd also suggest you define a new custom event in the Marriage Group and add events of that type. You can always change them to standard Marriage tags later. If they are a separate type, you can operate on them as a group.

John


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