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From: "Kathy Tabb" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tag Memos & Witnesses
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 17:55:37 -0400
References: <MWDE05LAVjCRGryWtII00000025@mail2world.com>


Kerry,
That should be <[M0]> not MO. Zero, not an oh.

Kathy Tabb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janis Rodriguez" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Tag Memos & Witnesses


> Kerry,
>
> Glad to help! Yes, you can add [M] to the Witnesses'
sentences, but you
> cannot add the [WM] variable to the Principals' sentences.
>
> Jan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerry Davis [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 5:13 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Tag Memos & Witnesses
>
> 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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