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From: "Rae Jean" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Date Modifiers
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:17:37 -0600
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Darrell
I have used this approach in TMG for several years. I only use these types
of roles/sentences for birth and death dates. I use DocEst, GuessEst and
CensusEst sentences for the birth tag and GuessEst, WillEst and DocEst for
the death tag. It simplifies birth and death entries. We have talked about
this before... as I recall you were not a fan of this approach when I
started thinking about how to set it up.

The main reason I decided to do this was because I wanted to be more
specific about estimates and modifiers in birth and death sentences. It
works very well. Never had a problem.
Rae Jean ... in Tennessee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Martin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Date Modifiers


: At 10:18 PM 3/10/04, Rae Jean wrote:
: >Jeannette
: >You have received a couple of replies addressing TMG's use of circa and
: >about.
: >
: >The way I would do what you want is to create a role in order to use
either
: >circa or about in sentences. Use TMG's traditional sentence for the circa
: >dates you want to enter. For the *about* dates, create a custom role for
a
: >sentence that outputs the about modifier. An *example* might be something
: >like this:
: >Role name: AbtEst (meaning about estimate)
: >Role sentence: [P1] <[PAR]> was born <about [D]> <[L]>. This estimate is
: >based on <[M]>
: >
: >When you enter a birth tag, select the custom role named "AbtEst" (or
: >whatever you name it) and then your sentence will output to reports with
: >about instead of circa. Now you will be able to use both terms for birth
: >dates, death dates or any tag in which you set up a custom role sentence
to
: >use the term about. If you only want to use the *about* modifier in birth
or
: >death sentences, this is an easy way to do it.
: >Rae Jean ... in Tennessee
:
: Hi, Rae Jean:
:
: Creative, but I would not be comfortable using what is normally a method
to qualify a *person's* relationship to an event to indicate the event's
relationship to a *date*. When applied in quantity, such approaches often
"bite" the user, especially during version upgrades. There would also be
problems (at a minimum, increased complexity) when multiple persons are
linked to the event.
:
: My preference would be to use one of the split memo fields, if available.
:
: [R:child] was born <[M2]> <[D]> <[L]> <[M1]>
:
: The memo field might look like this:
:
: in the old family home||during a blizzard about
:
: With the child's name, a place, and a date filled in, this would output:
:
: John Smith was born during a blizzard about 25 Dec
: 1887 in North East Westmoreland, New Hampshire, in
: the old family home.
:
: Don't quote me on the exact punctuation [grin].
:
: Darrell
:
:
: Darrell A. Martin
: a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
: http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy
:
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