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From: "s.lloyd9" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Patch
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:17:53 +0100
References: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDMEJEFCAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Hi Cheri,
Yes, if you don't want to add the parents to your database or their link
to a child that might work well, but it would useful to be able to get your
sentence when you do want to have them included as individuals. My cousin
recently sent me a biographical entry from a book for Benjamin Chamney
Graves, it mentions that he was the 4th son. I had only found two older
brothers so I have probably missed one somewhere and it would be good to be
able to record this fact and there have been lots of other occasions when I
don't have a birth date , but do know the order in which the children were
born.

Sally

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheri Casper" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Patch


> Sally - In looking at the Birth event template, the secondary link is
> parents. But I think I can create an second Birth event where the link is
> text and use that when I don't want to add the parents as the link. After
> church, I'll have to experiment with that. If that gives the desired
> results, then the problem is solved because I can easily run a query to
find
> all Birth events that contain "son of" or "daughter of" and change the
Event
> type. The big test will be how narrative reports generate when the
> individual is not the focus but the spouse.
>
> CheriC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s.lloyd9 [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:14 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Patch
>
>
> Hi Cheri,
> I've just checked through the old Release Notes and here is what Bill
> wrote in March 2003 when [G] was first introduced. I don't know if
anything
> has changed since then :-
>
> ''3) [G] added for specifying placement of event general notes in
sentence.
> Normally, general notes appear after sentence. This code allows general
> notes to be used as an ordinary data field. Note: the Report Content Page
> still controls whether general notes appear on reports.''
>
> If it is the case that you have to have all or none of your General
Notes
> in a report whether or not they are include in a sentence template, it
> would be useful to have a text field that would only appear in reports if
it
> was part of the sentence template. I know that some Event Templates have
a
> Text Field, but some don't.
>
> Sally
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cheri Casper" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:31 PM
> Subject: [GENBOX] Patch
>
>
> > Bill - The noncontinuous excerpts work beautifully. Thank you, thank
you,
> > thank you. In running my Descendent Narrative, however, if find this
> little
> > oddity.
> >
> >
> > She married ELISHA F. WELLS on 29 December 1831[4] in Woodford Co.,
> > Kentucky. Elisha,, was born in 1806 in Shelby Co., Kentucky.[5 ]
> >
> > The second comma after Elisha's name is generated because the sentence
> > reads: [P], [G], was born [D+L]
> >
> > The General Note contains this information: the second son of Haydon
> Wells
> > and Nancy Ford
> >
> > It has always been my understanding that the General Note options on the
> > Content tab did not have to be checked IF the variable was included in
the
> > sentence. I have always included the variable in my sentences if I want
> the
> > Note to appear other than at the end. As a result I've not changed that
> > option when I create a report. In doing the testing, I did select Event
> > General Notes for inclusion, both with and w/o the little tick box being
> > marked. In neither circumstance was I able to get the General Note to
> > generate.
> >
> > Is there some trick that I am missing here?
> >
> > CheriC
> >
> >
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