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From: Patt Ricketts <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wishlist Right click menu
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:24:53 -0800
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On 12/1/05, Diana Powell <> wrote:
>
>
> The last time I pressed the issue Bob said that one of the purposes of the
> witness feature was to eliminate the need for each subject to have their
> own
> tag (eg. census tag) and hence there shouldn't be the need for bulk
> copying
> of tags.
>
> Be that as it may, I think there are those of us who for a variety of
> reasons like to copy tags in bulk and if the default was still set to 1
> copy
> I don't see what the harm would be.
>
> Hmmmm, when is the next chat room? <G>
>
> Diana P.
>

I love the witness feature and use it all the time and still would love a
bulk copy.

I would use the bulk copy feature mainly in censuses. For things like
attended school. Many times there are 3-5 children attending school in a
family for a census year. I don't want to group them together in one tag. I
suppose you could, but I see that as a separate event for each person. The
same for occupations. If several of the boys are farm laborers. I just copy
the tag and change the ID number. Even if they have different occupations.
Its faster to copy the tag and change the occupation in the memo rather
than entering wiht F3 the date and place and the citation.

Patt

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