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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Revisiting - Journal report hangs
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 09:02:01 -0700
In-Reply-To: <HBEHKDHPINBHKLPIDFBFIEKIFCAA.kay@thegasgun.com>


oof! Yes, that would do it. :) I'm glad you finally found it, Kay. Must be
nice to have that nuisance removed at last. Congrats. ;)

DeAnna

-----Original Message-----
From: Kay Schmidt [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 11:10 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Revisiting - Journal report hangs


DeAnna (and all),

Problem solved!!

Your suggestion to check the tags for the descendants of Sarah put me on the
right track. In a copy of my project, I randomly picked her grandson
Frederic and deleted the 1920 and 1930 tags from his children. No luck. When
I deleted Frederic's census tags, the report ran fine. I decided to add the
CEN-1920 tag back one piece of data at a time. Again, the report worked
fine.

Puzzled, I compared the tag in the copy project to the original project and
saw that the sources were different. In my original project I had used my
Miscellaneous source that is just a Citation Detail that I enter on the fly.
In the copy project, I used a full-fledged census source. Pleased to have
the report working, I didn't give further thought to why one source worked
and the other didn't.

Then Phil at Wholly Genes came to the rescue. I had called earlier and Phil
discovered the real reason the report had been hanging. Somehow I had ended
up with <, [CD]> in the Citation Detail of the source on the 1920 and 1930
census tags for Frederic. As Phil explained: "What you have told TMG to do
is include the CD in the CD. So it does and every time it does it has to do
it again and again and again... Well you get the idea. It can't complete
computing the text of the CD for that source."

A thousand thanks to you, DeAnna, Lee, and everyone on this great List who
took the time to help me find a solution. Enjoy the holiday weekend.

Best wishes from a happy camper ... Kay Schmidt

-----Original Message-----
From: DeAnna Burghart [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 9:30 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Revisiting - Journal report hangs


Well, if it hangs when those tags are included, it hangs on 2 generations,
and Sarah does NOT have those tags, then perhaps the problem is not with the
tags, but with the tags as they're used on one of Sarah's descendants? If
it's possible, you might be able to validate this theory by running the
report for just one generation. (Is that possible? I forget ...)

Have you checked her children and their use of those tags to see if there's
anything unorthodox there? If nothing is immediately visible, you might try
deleting and recreating those two tags anyplace they appear on Sarah's
children. Depending on how determined you are to isolate the exact cause,
you could either do it en masse and then retry the report, or do it one at a
time; i.e. For Daughter 1, delete census 1920 tag, run report, if hangs,
re-enter census1920 tag, delete census 1930 tag, run report, if hangs, move
on to Daughter 2 ... etc. It would be arduous, but depending on your level
of curiosity and frustration it might be worth it.

DeAnna

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DeAnna Burghart
TMG Shortcuts, Variables and Report Cheat Sheets (Word and PDF)
http://members.cox.net/danieleb765/genealogy/


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