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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] setting up a married (second) tag for the first time
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:00:55 -0800
In-Reply-To: <001101c2956d$fdd95d90$d7b9fea9@MYRNICE>


Or for those who had polygamist marriages, of which I have several. CheriC
=^..^=

-----Original Message-----
From: myrnice [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:05 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] setting up a married (second) tag for the first time


James

You seem to have covered all of the bases where the marriage ended in the
death of a spouse, but what about the case of the marriage ending in a
divorce or a person who marries more than one person at a time (bigamy
etc.).

You may not find any of these in your line but I have both in mine.

Myrnice

"James P. Colgate" wrote on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] setting up a married (second) tag for the first time


> Hello everyone.
>
> Thanks again for all the suggestions in how to make my marriage tag
> accommodate married (first) and married (second), etc.
>
> Once I got going, though, I couldn't stop. So I added an extra phrase to
my
> marriage tag, for when the subject is marrying someone who was a widow/er.
> I'll describe it below in case it might help anyone else consider how to
use
> roles in their sentence structures.
>
> Here's how it prints out for someone who married 3 times, the last one to
> someone who was a widow:
>
> Samuel Rice was born in 1634. He married (first) Elizabeth King on 8 Nov
> 1655. He married (second) Mary Brown on 2 Sep 1668. He married (third)
Sarah
> White, daughter of John White and Joane (--?--), on 13 Dec 1676 ; she was
> the widow of James Hosmer. He died on 25 Sep 1685.
>
> The only one problem is I can't seem to get rid of the space before the
> semicolon. Oh, well.
>
> And after I upgrade to v.5, I'll be able to use name styles which will be
> great -- I'd like to say I can't wait to upgrade, but I can wait.
>
> (Most of you will want to close this email here and delete it, as the rest
> of my description that follows starts getting ugly.)
>
> My roles are:
>
> Principal
> [R:0nly marriage for]
> [R:1st marriage for]
> [R:2nd marriage for]
> [R:3rd marriage for]
> [R:prior decd husbands]
> [R:prior decd wives]
> [R:z Host]
> [R:z Official]
>
> I use Principal where both parties marry only once -- but as soon as one
> party marries more than once, then Principal is no longer an option, so I
> added the role: [R:0nly marriage for]. Note that I used the zero "0" and
not
> the letter "O" in "0nly", so it sorts alphabetically. Also, the "z" in
> front of Host and Official serves to put them at the end of the list.
>
> Then my sentence:
>
> Principal: Male Sentence:
> [P] married <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]> <[L]> <at a
> ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; she was the widow of [R:prior decd
> husbands]>
>
> Principal: Female Sentence:
> [P] married <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]> <[L]> <at a
> ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; he was the widower of [R:prior
decd
> wives]>
>
> and then my role sentences are almost similar to the principal's, with
minor
> changes here and there:
>
> [R:0nly marriage for] Male
> [P] married< [PO]>< [PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]> <[L]> <at a
> ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; she was the widow of [R:prior decd
> husbands]>
>
> [R:0nly marriage for] Female
> [P] married <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]> <[L]> <at a
> ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; he was the widower of [R:prior
decd
> wives]>
>
>
> [R:1st marriage for] Male
> [P] married (first) <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]>
<[L]>
> <at a ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; she was the widow of
[R:prior
> decd husbands]>
>
> [R:1st marriage for] Female
> [P] married (first) <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]>
<[L]>
> <at a ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; he was the widower of
[R:prior
> decd wives]>
>
>
> [R:2nd marriage for] Male
> [P] married (second) <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]>
<[L]>
> <at a ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; she was the widow of
[R:prior
> decd husbands]>
>
> [R:2nd marriage for] Female
> [P] married (second) <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]>
<[L]>
> <at a ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; he was the widower of
[R:prior
> decd wives]>
>
>
> [R:3rd marriage for] Male
> [P] married (third) <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]>
<[L]>
> <at a ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; she was the widow of
[R:prior
> decd husbands]>
>
> [R:3rd marriage for] Female
> [P] married (third) <[PO]> <[PARO]> <[D]> <at the home of [R:z Host]>
<[L]>
> <at a ceremony performed by [R:z Official]><; he was the widower of
[R:prior
> decd wives]>
>
> [R:prior decd husbands]
> --
>
> [R:prior decd wives]
> --
>
> [R:z Host]
> --
>
> [R:z Official]
> --

snip...


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