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From: "John Driver" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Age at Marriage
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:17:34 +0100
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** Reply to message from on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:08:06
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Thanks, Denise.

You're right, the detail box is provided for extra information relating to the
event itself, not the principal(s) or any witnesses. But in a report one
sometimes to wants to give all the salient points about a marriage (say) in a
single sentence, including some particulars of the individuals concerned. You
know the kind of thing:

"At St Nicholas Church, Nottingham, 29 January 1860, Andrew Stapleton, full
age, bachelor, watchmaker, married Eliza Eason, full age, spinster, servant,
Castle Gate, daughter of John Eason, malster."

Actually that's taking it a bit far, even for me, but I'd like to be able to
tack a little bit of individual-related data on to an event. The same would
apply to census events, of course. But I suppose it would be imposing too much
complexity on the software.

Regards

John

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