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From: "Linda Lambert" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Cause of Death within TMG
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:09:06 -0700
References: <20040128071435.94001.qmail@web80213.mail.yahoo.com>


I like your sentence, Chuck.....

But how would you change it to read "The cause of Anna's death on (date) was
pneumonia. I would like to add the date of death, if known.

Linda (still a newbie at sentence construction, but learning!)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Wolfram" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Cause of Death within TMG


> I used to use the memo in the death tag. I know of
> others who prefer this method. For some time I've
> been using my custom "cause-death" tag. The sentence
> I use is:
> "The cause of [PFS] death was <[M]>"
> I give it a sort date of one day after the sort date
> on the death tag, and before the obituary tag, which
> precedes the funeral and/or burial tag(s).
>
> There is no standard tag for this in TMG.
>
> As to GEDCOM, TMG does use it, and supports both
> versions 4 and 5.5. You need not use it--you usually
> don't need it to import your data. There are various
> ways of exporting data, only one of which is GEDCOM.
> But TMG does fully support it.
>
> Chuck Wolfram
>
>
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