TMG-L Archives

Archiver > TMG > 2005-07 > 1120272007


From: "Ken Boyce" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Formatted Sources
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 19:40:07 -0700
References: <BAY108-DAV1702C38520E3135E798D74D7E20@phx.gbl> <6.2.1.2.2.20050701190816.037d2070@mail.bellsouth.net>


Hi Teresa and Lee

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my obviously fuzzy posting.



I'm following Lee's good advice and have set up a Practice Project to play
with. What I'm aiming to do is to get to understand and to set up as many
default and custom aspects of TMG as is possible based on a small sampling
of relatives prior to transferring the bulk from PAF 5.2



I think I understand the concept of Tags and basic data entry. It's the
Citations that go with the Tags that I have an interest in and which I
loosely called sources in my posting. In particular I'm referring to the
non-unique repeating words (similar to field labels in Tags) that form the
data input to the Citation.



When adding a New Person there are several sources and Birth Tags that in my
case are relevant for entering birth details. One of these is Birth-Reg
using data from the BMD Index. The person unique data (which may be what I
think you experienced users call sourcing the source) that goes with the
generic (BMD) Citation is very structured and on a spread sheet would have
the inputs labelled Year, Quarter, Reg District, Vol, Page.



My question is can something be set up in the data input to the Citation for
the Birth-reg Tag so that the BMD Index field labels do not have to be
retyped for each new entry. Similarly for other structured sources such as
the Census. (I admit my typing is such that I go to great lengths to avoid
it as much as possible!)



I hope I have now made myself more understanderable



Regards

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hoffman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Formatted Sources


> 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
> TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)
>
>
>
> ==== TMG Mailing List ====
> Send all messages and replies to <>.
>
>

This thread: