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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Printing witness memos
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:37:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200502081816.j18IGNuZ005485@ms-smtp-03-eri0.socal.rr.com>


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:16:15 -0800, KathrynAtGwens wrote:
> I think I must be missing something on the new feature of
> Witness Memos that I so much wanted, because the witness
> memo isn't printing.
>
> Example:
> John Doe 1860 census - he's the principal and his
> sentence is: [P] appeared on the 1860 census as the head
> of household, [L] [M] He properly prints. In his
> household is Fred Doe. The sentence that is in his
> witness entry is: [W] appeared on the 1860 census in the
> household of [P1], [L].< His info on the census included
> - [WM]> and in his memo I have This is Fred Doe's memo.
> But when I print the FGS, I get John Doe's memo instead.

FGSs don't use sentences. The Memo option on the FGS report def refers
to the tag memo, not the witness memos.

>
> If I change his sentence to be [M2] and have This is John
> Doe's memo|| This is Fred Doe's memo Then I properly get
> "This is Fred Doe's memo" in the printout.

In a FGS? I don't get that -- [M1] prints for the witness, not [M2],
which is what I'd expect since sentences are ignored by FGSs.

Terry Reigel


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