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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Formatted Sources
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:17:19 -0400
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Ken Boyce wrote:
>I'm a TMG UK ver6.1 newbie and am still getting bogged down in some of the
>input detail
>
>When entering a new person, usually a close relative via the Add Menu, is
>there some way to semi automate the input from formatted sources
>
>For instance when entering data from a BMD Index source (birth-reg) is it
>possible to have preset boxes for inputting the source, the year and
>quarter, Reg Dist, Vol, and page #
>
>It would seem to me that whilst the data is unique to each person the
>fields are common to all entries and should be preset


I don't think you quite understand the data entry concept. When you add a
person you will enter a certain amount of data (name, sex, dates, places,
and added Memo field data) and then you will add a Source Citation which
indicates the document from which you obtained the data and possibly other
information pointing to the place within the document where the data is
found..

In the case of the Source Citation, you can create a Source for each person
for each document -or- for each document generically. If the latter, you
would create the Source in such a way that it identifies the document (the
register) and then when you add the Source Citation you would add the
specific identifying information as to the line entry in the register, etc.
by entering that in the Citation Detail.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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