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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Age at Marriage
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:46:11 -0700
In-Reply-To: <042620071508.20804.4630C056000A4573000051442206813153080C9B079D009C9C0103D20B@comcast.net>


John - I have several marriages where I have such information as "Daisy
Miller of Mayfield" which gives me a clue as to where the bride was living
before the marriage. In those instances, I like to output the place where
the bride is from; likewise I have the same situations for men. Therefore,
I have simply mades these events directional, created different sentences
for each direciton and use the General Note field to put the information "of
Mayfield" or whatever. This works for me and gives me sentences such as:

Isaac Newton Guthrie, age 21, married Mary Beauchamp of Spencer Co.,
Kentucky, on July 26, 1832. (when viewed from the man's perspective)

When viewed from the woman's perspective, the sentence reads:

Mary Beauchamp of Spencer Co., Kentucky, married Isaac Newton Guthrie, age
21, on July 26, 1832.

So I think you can accomplish what you want to do by making the events in
question directional -- with one sentence when viewed from the male
perspective, a different sentence when viewed from the female perspective.
You can probably use the Detail field to put in the "extra" information and
include the variable in whichever sentence is required and then select the
appropriate sentence from the section drop down on the event page. I simply
use the General Note field, but I see no reason why this wouldn't work with
the Detail field as well.

However, if you simply want ages, you don't need to make the event template
directional. You merely need to add the variable to the sentence. By using
the conditional brackets, the age will only be output when known or
calculated. Therefore if you have no birth event for an individual, nothing
is output.

CheriC




-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Age at Marriage


Hi John,

The detail information is common to both parties because the event (a
marriage) is not a single individual event. (At least the last I heard, two
people were required. <G>) Now, if you created an event for a marriage
license (or as I have seen before, a marriage bond), _that_ would be a
single individual event, with information about lthe intended partner
included in the information (a role perhaps?) data, without being directly
and actively included in the event.

Best,

Denise

-------------- Original message --------------
From: "John Driver" <>

> ** Reply to message from "Cheri Casper" on Tue, 24 Apr
> 2007 11:57:36 -0700
> Cheri,
>
> Thanks and apologies. I was suffering from a mental lapse when I posed
that
> question - see my reply to Denise.
>
> I would still like to see some way of having a kind of Detail field not
common
> to both parties in such a case.
>
> John
>
> > John - On the Summary page for the two individuals, you can add their
ages
> > by typing them into the Age column, thereby overriding the automatic
> > calculation.
> >
> > CheriC
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [mailto:]On
> > Behalf Of mailing list subscriber
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:23 AM
> > To: GENBOX-L
> > Subject: [GENBOX] Age at Marriage
> >
> >
> > Is there a handy way to attach individual ages to the parties to a
marriage
> > event?
> >
> > John Driver, UK
>
> JohnD, UK

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