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From: Don MacFarlane <>
Subject: Re: [2NDST] at age an unknown person
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 13:17:56 -0400
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Beth,

Thanks for the tips. Data is inserted below.

Don

beth wrote:

> Don,
>
> > 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.
>
> Could you post the sentence template you are now using,

[RF:Deceased] died <[D]> <[L]> at age [RE:Deceased]. <[M2].>
changed from
[RF:Deceased] died <[D]> <[L]> at age [RA:Deceased]. <[M2].>

(Both of these produced the same result in SS)

> the TMG4 sentence output

Margaret died on 24 November 1906 at Mulgrave, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, at
age 86 years; partial paralysis for 12 months.

> and the SS sentence output?

Margaret died on 24 November 1906 at Mulgrave, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, at
age an unknown person .

> It will be helpful to John. Also, post
> what you have in the Strings->Age Strings->Missing Age Strings field.

at an unknown age

>
>
> > 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?
>
> You can make a global change to the sentence in the Tag Type Definition, but
> I would not do that myself unless I felt that the change will produce output
> that will appeal to me *most* of the time - i.e., if you have full
> birth/death dates available, [RE:role] will produce "x years, x months, x
> days" which may be wordier than you would like...remember that someday your
> "circa" birth date may become an exact birth date, and that will change how
> RE prints in the sentence.
>
> beth
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don MacFarlane [mailto:]
> > Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 11:59 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [2NDST] at age an unknown person
> >
> >
> > 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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