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From: Gordon Banks <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Custom Tag - No Witness Sentence
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:56:29 -0700
References: <000d01c57e53$810bb2a0$6602a8c0@Moms17>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c57e53$810bb2a0$6602a8c0@Moms17>


How do you attach a source and surety to the witness memo?

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:42 -0500, Teresa Elliott wrote:
> Louise,
> Before I would exclude a witness sentence entirely, I would make it <[WM]>.
> That way I can record information specific to that one witness that might be
> different from the other witnesses. If you need some sentence ideas, see my
> TMG link below. None of those have the [WM] variable since it was introduce
> later though. Also as John said, I have an IMG-tag for every major tag I
> use.
> So my PV might look like this:
>
> Birth:
> IMG-Birth
> Marriage
> IMG-Marriage
> Muster Roll
> IMG-Muster Roll
> Death
> IMG-Death
>
> That allows me more control over when an exhibit prints. I might want to
> send out a report with all my death certificates, but not marriage licenses.
> Or all his military records, but no other exhibits. It helps to put a COPY
> TAG icon on your custom toolbar. Then you can COPY the tag. Then you can
> just change the tag type, and attach the exhibit. My sentence for IMG-tags
> is just <[M]>.
>
> Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then add
>
> Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above
>
> TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html
>
> Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cardinal [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:16 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Custom Tag - No Witness Sentence
>
> Louise Smith wrote:
> > OK, nevermind. I see now that "--" are double-exclusion
> > markers. Useful.
>
> Louise,
>
> You got it. Chapter 5 demonstrates a couple related techniques. One is
> creating tags to hold details, like the text of a will, that you may or may
> not want to print depending on how you are going to use the output. If you
> put the text of the Will in the Will tag memo, you have to print the will
> text or suppress memos entirely. That's not very flexible. The second idea
> is to attach witnesses to tags but omit the tag from the narrative of the
> witnesses. That's when you set the sentence to double-exclusion marks
> ("--").
>
> Many people also use custom tags for exhibits. If you have a Marriage tag,
> for example, you might want to attach a wedding photo to the Marriage tag
> but you might also consider making a "Wedding Photo" tag and attaching the
> wedding photo to that. That way, you can decide to include or exclude
> certain types of exhibits by selecting which tag types to include or
> exclude.
>
> John
>
>
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