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From: "Martin Jackson" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] v5.15 - Use of Name-Mar tag
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:24:07 +0100
In-Reply-To: <4139AFE9.67A6ADE5@bellatlantic.net>


Bob,
Thanks for the quick reply, I shall put my responses in the text,
O.K.?

-----Original Message-----
From: bob gillis [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 1:07 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] v5.15 - Use of Name-Mar tag

Martin Jackson wrote:
>
> Good morning Listers,
> I have elected to Prompt for Married Names and to copy Date field for
> Marriage. When I enter a marriage, the names in the Name-Mar tag that are
> automatically filled are Surname and SortSurname only ( by design?).>

Yes by design. The given name is filled from the primary Name Var Tag.
MJ in 'my' Name-Marr tag, I see only Surname and SortName, I would
like her forename to have been written in, at least


> I would like to have GivenName and Suffix entered automatically, too if
> possible.>

Why do you want a Suffix entered?
MJIn the Tag Entry screen, I am offered names derived from Primary Name or
Name-Var or Name-Marr, I wish to use the details that are stored in
Name-Marr in all tags post her Marriage, in the form Jane Bull nee Jones
(where Jane is in the Name-Marr field of GivenName, Bull has been derived
from Surname, the surname of her husband and nee Jones from Suffix that has
been derived from her Maiden surname and the word nee prepended using J.C's
Utils. I then use the name in a sentence that outputs in a form similar to
the following: Jane Smith nee Jones was Buried etc.

> I have manually entered these fields in most cases at the time of entry of
> the Marriage, but find that I still have 1017 persons who need to be
updated
> [BORING !]>

In Ver 4 and I assume in Ver 5 also, if you have any other field but the
Surname populated, the Suppress Married Names in a Journal Report will
not work and the sentence "Her married name was xxxxx" will print. I do
not know if having a Suffix will cause this.
MJI do not 'see' this in my version of TMG, it appears to print fully as I
would expect.

If woman does not assume her husband's surname at marriage, then having
a Nam-Marr with her birth name will print and show that she did not change
it.
MJin my project of some 14000 persons, I do not have any record of a woman
who has not adopted the husband's surname !!! To be fair I DO NOT use the
tag Name-Marr in my Reports, excluding it by not selecting the tag in the
Report, but use the name format that it produces to show her married name
and maiden name in various tags sentences, in Reports.

bob gillis


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