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From: Kerry Davis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tag Memos & Witnesses
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:09:09 -0700
References: <MWDE05LAVjCRGryWtII00000025@mail2world.com> <01f101c69d59$166e5ee0$39f1ec18@S0029584367>


Thanks both of you, Kathy & Janis -- my next question was: is that O or
0, and, yes, I was using "oh" not zer-oh!! And then I'm sure I would
have asked about [WM] next -- so you all are ahead of me and I
appreciate it! :-D

Kerry

Kathy Tabb wrote:

>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
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>
>>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]>
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>>Earlier I fooled around with the sentences and rewrote some
>>
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>things, so
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>>now it works as I would like it to in SS, printing out the
>>
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>revised Memo
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>>sentence with each witness is OK now, and I see that if I do a
>>
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>Journal
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>>Report in TMG the memo is now attached to each witness as a
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>footnote,
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>>which I was trying to figure out before I got your email -- so
>>
>>
>now I can
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>>also understand why that must be.....at least I think I
>>
>>
>understand. If I
>
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>>want the Principal Person's memo to print in a report for a
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>witness, I
>
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>>should add [M] to the witness sentence and that will pick up
>>
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>the [P]'s
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>>memo, right? Or otherwise put <[MO]> or uncheck the option box,
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>etc.
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>>I'll go fool around with thos Ms and MOs a bit and see what
>>
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>happens.
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>
>>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 < >
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>>>brackets.
>>>
>>>The <[M0]> variable is especially necessary in sentence
>>>
>>>
>construction if you
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>>>use the Option which causes the tag memo to be included a
>>>
>>>
>report when [M]
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>>is
>>
>>
>>>not included in the sentence:
>>>
>>>Report > Options > Memos tab > Memos not included in the
>>>
>>>
>sentence
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>
>>>Choose footnote, endnote, or embedded
>>>
>>>Rather than adding <[M0]> to the witnesses' sentences, you
>>>
>>>
>could just
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>>>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,
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>
>>>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
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>
>>>the children of the [P1]. On each witnesses tag I wrote a
>>>
>>>
>sentence
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>>>specific to just that witness. When checking each witness in
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>>>
>the
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>>>individual narrative review, it all looked correct, and fooled
>>>
>>>
>me,
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>
>>>because when I ran a journal report or went even further to
>>>
>>>
>run the
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>>>database in SS, the results were that each witnesses had all
>>>
>>>
>the
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>>>paragraphs from the original [P1]'s long memo tag along with
>>>
>>>
>the
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>>>specific witness sentence I wrote for each of them -- I don't
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>>>
>want that
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>>>original text in [P1]'s memo to show up with each witness,
>>>
>>>
>only with
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>>>[P1]. Maybe I should have just asked more simply, is it
>>>
>>>
>possible to have
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>>>a person's memo field in a tag NOT show up on the narrative of
>>>
>>>
>each
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>>>witness to that tag? Or is that the whole point of a witness,
>>>
>>>
>to be able
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>>>to take on [P1]'s memo sentence also? Am I making this clear
>>>
>>>
>enough to
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>
>>>anyone?? :-D
>>>
>>>Kerry
>>>
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