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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] born - at England
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:57:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: <447F0773.1030807@sackett.org.uk>


Chris,
In your example, I would consider five miles south of to be part of the
place. Where I wouldn't want the hyperlink would be "In" Timbucktoo.
That's why I use the place styles. Then I can put the style name in L10
with an exclusion marker like "In the Jones Cemetery, 5 miles south of
Timbucktoo, Wilson County, TN. -cemetery"


Teresa Ghee Elliott-IBSSG
TMG sentences
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG/TMG.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Sackett [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [TMG] born - at England

Terry Reigel wrote:

> When I need a different modifier - "near," "south of," "five miles
> from" or the like - I do regard that as part of the data and enter it
> in the place fields. I then change the place variable in the sentence
> to < [L]> (note space between the opening conditional bracket and
> variable) to suppress the automatic "in."

Terry,

A snag with using place fields for prepositions is that they appear as
part of the hyperlinked place in Second Site, so you get "five miles
south of Timbuktoo" all underlined as a link. I do think it would be a
significant improvement if TMG provided a field specifically for place
prepositions. Failing that, the best way seems to be to use the tag
sentence. For events used most often, such as bmdb, I use roles to
define "in" or "at" sentences. For any other preposition, I make the
change at tag level.

Chris


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