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From: Don MacFarlane <>
Subject: Re: [2NDST] at age an unknown person
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 11:58:32 -0400
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Thank you Rae Jean, Richard, Myrnice, Pam and Beth.

There was a problem in the TMG4 narrative which was corrected by changing
[RA:Deceased] to [RE:Deceased], but this did not correct the problem in SS. Perhaps
when John finishes his bike ride (it's hot & humid in New England) he can comment.

Back to changing [RA:Deceased] to [RE:Deceased]. Since I have quite a few estimated
DOB at the moment, is there a quick fix for all of them or do I go one by one?

Don

Pam wrote:

> At 01:33 AM 8/3/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Don
> >
> >Change you sentence to:
> >
> >[RF:Deceased] died <[D]> <[L]>< at age [RA:Deceased]>. <[M2].> So you do not
> >get the unknown person statement. This is because the age at death is not
> >available unless the birth date is known.
>
> > > When I have an individual whose DOB is unknown and whose DOD
> > > is known, I get the following printout.
> > >
> > > Margaret was born circa 1820 at St. Joseph's, Antigonish,
> > > Nova Scotia, Canada.1,2,3 She married Michael MacFarlane at
> > > Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.2,3 Margaret died on 24
> > > November 1906 at Mulgrave, Guysborough, Nova Scotia,
> > > Canada, at age an unknown person .
> > >
>
> Another way that should take care of this is to open SS and change the
> entries in the "Strings". If you look at the age string it has for a
> missing age "at an unknown age" and for a missing place in the place
> strings "at an unknown place" or in the people strings for a missing person
> "an unknown person". You can just delete all the text you don't want to
> appear. I deleted anything that had an unknown ---- and the output just
> ignores that point. I don't know why your output has an unknown person
> instead of an unknown age but you could try removing all the "unknown
> strings" and see if the output is better. That will do it for every person
> in your database which has a date, place or age missing. It won't change
> the default values--it will only change the setup for that particular
> *.sdf You'd have to change it again if you start another site from scratch.
>
> Pam
>
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