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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Witnesses
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:30:49 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5909a13f0601010302x1bdc64cbw@mail.gmail.com>


On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:02:02 +0000, karen wrote:

> Since I am in the middle of entering death certificate
> information, I have a specific example where the two
> witnesses have different roles, as follows.
>
> [W] was present at the death of his father [P1] <and
> [P2]> <[D]> <[L]>
>
> and
>
> [W] was the registrar who signed his father's death
> certificate [P1] <and [P2]> <[D]> <[L]>

Karen, several points:

1. These are rather unusual cases, so I would not create any specific
role for them, but instead just enter them locally in the individual
tag.

2. The sentences you show here are for the witnesses. You can just
enter them as you have them in the sentence field for each witness.

3. If you also want the witnesses to be mentioned in the narrative of
the deceased, which was the original issue in this thread, then you
need to also modify the sentence for the principal. The first question
when you do that is just how to you want the narrative to appear?
Once we know that we could offer suggestions about how to achieve it.

4. If you want the witnesses to be mentioned in the narrative of the
deceased you will have to create one or more roles and assign them to
the witnesses, in order to place the correct witness with the
corresponding text.

> This one is a one off, but when I get around to entering
> information from wills, there will be quite a lot of
> different roles for the witnesses.

I have some suggestions for will roles in an article on my website at
http://tmg.reigelridge.com/Roles-Wills.htm

If you need help with the process of creating Roles, you may find my
Roles Tutorial helpful. It's at
http://tmg.reigelridge.com/Roles-Tutorial.htm

Terry Reigel

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