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From: Kerry Davis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tag Memos & Witnesses
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:12:41 -0700
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Thanks so much Janis. I don't think I've ever used MO before and so I
don't feel too bad not remembering!! :-D I'm real glad to know how and
where to use the <[MO]>

Earlier I fooled around with the sentences and rewrote some things, so
now it works as I would like it to in SS, printing out the revised Memo
sentence with each witness is OK now, and I see that if I do a Journal
Report in TMG the memo is now attached to each witness as a footnote,
which I was trying to figure out before I got your email -- so now I can
also understand why that must be.....at least I think I understand. If I
want the Principal Person's memo to print in a report for a witness, I
should add [M] to the witness sentence and that will pick up the [P]'s
memo, right? Or otherwise put <[MO]> or uncheck the option box, etc.
I'll go fool around with thos Ms and MOs a bit and see what happens.

Thanks a lot!
Kerry

Janis Rodriguez wrote:

>Kerry,
>
>You need to add <[M0]> to witness sentence. The variable <[M0]> suppresses
>printing of the tag memo [M]. It MUST be enclosed in conditional < >
>brackets.
>
>The <[M0]> variable is especially necessary in sentence construction if you
>use the Option which causes the tag memo to be included a report when [M] is
>not included in the sentence:
>
>Report > Options > Memos tab > Memos not included in the sentence
>Choose footnote, endnote, or embedded
>
>Rather than adding <[M0]> to the witnesses' sentences, you could just
>uncheck the above box in Report Options. However, that would result in none
>of the memos being printed, though; probably not the desired result.
>
>Jan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kerry Davis [mailto:]
>Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 2:07 PM
>To:
>Subject: [TMG] Tag Memos & Witnesses
>
>I'm just getting back to genealogy, TMG & SS and feel I'm relearning a
>lot of things, or maybe I never knew them in the first place! Anyway,
>perhaps I'm trying to do something that can't be done, but here's my
>question:
>
>I have a tag for [P1] with a few paragraphs written in the memo
>sentence. I added a bunch of witnesses to this tag which happened to be
>the children of the [P1]. On each witnesses tag I wrote a sentence
>specific to just that witness. When checking each witness in the
>individual narrative review, it all looked correct, and fooled me,
>because when I ran a journal report or went even further to run the
>database in SS, the results were that each witnesses had all the
>paragraphs from the original [P1]'s long memo tag along with the
>specific witness sentence I wrote for each of them -- I don't want that
>original text in [P1]'s memo to show up with each witness, only with
>[P1]. Maybe I should have just asked more simply, is it possible to have
>a person's memo field in a tag NOT show up on the narrative of each
>witness to that tag? Or is that the whole point of a witness, to be able
>to take on [P1]'s memo sentence also? Am I making this clear enough to
>anyone?? :-D
>
>Kerry
>
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