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From: "William M Roberts" <>
Subject: Fw: [TMG] Focus Group Creation
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:49:37 -0400


I already asked Ian to remove the "Reply Address" from his mail program.


"William M Roberts" <>
To: "Ian Chisholm" <>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Focus Group Creation


> Ian
>
> Open the focus group with the 3,913 individuals, highlight the first
> individual, scroll to the last individual and hold down the shift key
> select the last individual. This should select all individuals in the
> focus group.
>
> Select on the "Spouses" block and then click on "Add Others"
>
> Myrnice
>
> "Ian Chisholm" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 2:03 PM
> Subject: [TMG] Focus Group Creation
>
>
>> Hello List,
>> This is my first post as I am a new TMG user.
>>
>> I used the direct import facility of TMG to import a FTM file with over
>> 73,000 individuals. It took 2+ hours but the results appear to be good. I
>> then ran a couple of reports on the people I was interested in. First, I
>> prepared a Descendancy Narrative report which identified 4,839
>> individuals. I then ran a Descendant Indented Chart and manually
>> estimated the number of individuals - this turned out to be 5,544. So my
>> first question - why the large discrepancy?
>>
>> I then used a Focus Group to identify the individuals I am interested in
>> for later export to a new dataset. I checked the Descendants and Spouse
>> boxes and got an initial focus Group pf 3,913. I realize this does not
>> include Spouses (of Descendants) so I then added up all of the spouses on
>> the Descendant Indented Chart report. This came to 1,503 which when added
>> to the 3,913 already in the Focus Group amounts to 5,416. Assuming my
>> previous calculated number of 5,544 is correct, this leaves 128
>> individuals unaccounted for (5,544 - 5,416).
>>
>> My questions here are:
>>
>> - any thoughts on the missing 128 individuals?
>>
>> - assuming that I now have to (semi) manually enter over 1,500 spouses to
>> the Focus Group - is there an easier way?
>>
>> - why are spouses not included when building the original focus group? It
>> seems logical to include them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ian Chisholm
>> Victoria, BC Canada
>>
>>
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