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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] v5.15 - Use of Name-Mar tag
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:16:40 -0400
References: <IGEBIICJNFBCFBINHIGGOEKCDGAA.martinfjackson@beeb.net>


Lee Hoffman has answered most of you questions but I have a few
additional comments

Martin Jackson wrote:
>
bob gillis wrote:
>
> Why do you want a Suffix entered?

and Martin replied

> In 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.
>


Tag sentences are part of a narrative report and not stand alone. So
the Sentence that Jane Smith die will be in her narrative or her
husband's narrative and he birth surname need not be in the sentence.

If you are making a List of Names, the birth name and married name will
appear.

> 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 !]>
>
John Cardinal's Utility will populate your married names

bob gillis wrote:

> 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.

Martin wrote:

>I do not 'see' this in my version of TMG, it appears to print fully as I
> would expect.>

snip

> 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.>

I don't understand. If you have Nam-Marr excluded how can you see it
printed in full?

You can exclude the Nam-Marr Tag or you can include the Nam-Marr Tag and
exclude married names, ie only those Nam-Marr Tags with only a surname

I use the Nam-Marr exclusion feature quite a bit. I find an obituary
the says the a daughter of Isobel Pentz Park was Jane (Mrs Richard)
Smith with no information on the husband. I enter a Nam-Var of Jane
Park and a Nam-Marr of Mrs Richard Smith. If I am not following this
line my data amy remain this way. But if I am following or come across
info on the marriage and the husband then I add a husband and change the
Nam-Marr to Smith.

bob gillis

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