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From: "Ron Bernier" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Witness export
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:51:39 -0500
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Don,

I use the witness for my Census events. Actually the roles do show up on
the individual's record. EX: Individual report for John Kane: Head of
household, John Kane. Also enumerated in the household was Harriet, wife.
If I run an individual report for Harriet, I do get a sentence that says
Harriet was the wife on the 1880 census, of 2 June 1880 in the houshold of
John Kane.


Ron Bernier


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Zochert" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Witness export


>
> Hi, Paul,
>
> In Genbox, if you're a witness to my death, your name will appear on the
> witness list of my death event record. But if you go to *your* records,
> and step through the events in *your* life on the events tab, the fact
> that you were a witness to my death will not appear. That's what I meant
> when I said that the act of witnessing an event, in Genbox, does not
> show up as an event in the witness's life.
>
> The fact that you were a witness to my death *will* appear as a line
> item on your individual summary tab. But that line item will not tell
> you whose death you witnessed. To find that out, you'll have to
> double-click on the "(W) Death" tag name. This will take you away from
> your records to my records, where your name will appear as a witness on
> my death record.
>
> The bottom line is, you can't step through the events in your own life
> and see the events you witnessed, since the events tab only shows you
> some of the events, not all. And if you limit yourself to viewing your
> individual summary tab, Genbox will not tell you the most important
> thing about the event you witnessed--whose death it was. (If I'm missing
> something about witnesses in Genbox, I respectfully submit the "where's
> the user's manual?" defense, followed by the "not enough coffee" defense
> <g>.)
>
> If these observations are correct, it speaks to the way information is
> presented. So does Misty Bogle's post last night about customizing the
> individual view.
>
> To take TMG as an example, its so-called detail view displays much the
> same information that Genbox does on the individual summary tab--the
> event tag name, the date, the place, the age of the subject individual,
> etc. There's one big difference. In TMG, the beginning of the event tag
> memo will appear in the name/place field on the detail view if you
> suppress the place information (now we're getting technical). You can
> easily get a view of an individual's life containing line items such as:
>
> Event-Misc Performed baptism of Johann Blüdorn
> Tax List Owns land in R15, T17, Sec. 2
> Probate Estate administrators appointed
>
> The individual summary in this case really gives you some useful
> information about the nature of the events that are listed. To get the
> equivalent information in Genbox, it seems to me, you need to go to the
> events tab and physically step through the event records of an
> individual's life. Then, thanks to the general or research note field on
> each record, you'll be able to access the same kind of information you
> can get up-front and easily on the summary view in TMG. Unfortunately,
> in GB, any events that you witnessed will not be present as you step
> through the events on the events tab.
>
> Don
>
>
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