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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Focus Group Creation
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:02:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20068315227.466794@Terry3>

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:03:53 -0700, Ian Chisholm wrote:

> This is my first post as I am a new TMG user.

Welcome to TMG, and to TMG-L!

> 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?

The Descendancy Narrative does not include spouses (I suppose because
they are not descendants). The Descendant Indented Chart includes them
(I suppose because it is traditional to do so in that format).


> - assuming that I now have to (semi) manually enter over
> 1,500 spouses to the Focus Group - is there an easier way?

Yes - click the select all button, and then Add Spouses.

> - why are spouses not included when building the original
> focus group? It seems logical to include them.

Because you were adding the Descendants and Spouses of the people you
had selected in the Focus group. Since the descendants were not then
in the FG, they could not have been selected, so their spouses could
not be added.

Terry Reigel

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