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From: Gordon Banks <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Custom Tag - No Witness Sentence
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:17:05 -0700
References: <000801c57e6a$05d93000$6602a8c0@Moms17>
In-Reply-To: <000801c57e6a$05d93000$6602a8c0@Moms17>


Probably a good excuse for me to learn to use embedded citations anyhow.

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 13:23 -0500, Teresa Elliott wrote:
> I guess you could try embedded citations there. That might be a good
> addition to request.
>
> 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: Gordon Banks [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 1:05 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [TMG] Custom Tag - No Witness Sentence
>
> Well, the M is for the Memo that applies to the principal person(s).
>
> I have event tags that have witnesses where each witness is documented
> by a separate source. For example, the coronation of Edward II. Quite
> a few of my ancestors were there, but I don't have a source that has
> them all listed in one place. The sources are about the individual
> ancestor, and they mention that he/she was present or even did something
> like carry the septre or the King's sword, etc., that I'd like in the
> WM, so I put it there and then just have a huge list of sources for the
> tag as a whole, but it would be nicer to be able to specify which source
> went with which witness & WM.
>
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 12:05 -0500, Teresa Elliott wrote:
> > That's a good question. I am not sure. I assume it uses the M field on the
> > tag, but I can't say.
> >
> > 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: Gordon Banks [mailto:]
> > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:56 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: RE: [TMG] Custom Tag - No Witness Sentence
> >
> > 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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Gordon Banks <>

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