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From: Robin Lamacraft <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Alternative to Marriage Tag
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:39:53 +0930
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Teresa,

Prints fine where?

I presume that you entered the partners in their chronological order.

If you don't enter the partners in the chronological order at data entry
then they will not print on charts correctly (by default undated
relationships sort according to their entry order). In other words if you
find a earlier or intermediate relationship after you have entered the
known children, then it has the potential to get the output wrong. BTW:
Undated relationships come at the opposite end of the partner sequence
depending on whether you output to VCF or to a Descendant Indent Chart -
very confusing unless you have those dated Marriage Group events.

For these cases, I use a custom Marriage Group tag "Partner" and make sure
that each event has at least a sensible sort date - the date can be empty.

Robin

At 21:09 29/08/2005 -0500, Teresa wrote:
>Robin,
>My great grandmother has 3 such relationships. The information prints fine
>according to the children's birth dates.
>
>Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then add
>
>Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above
>
>TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html
>
>Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Lamacraft [mailto:]
>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:08 PM
>To:
>Subject: RE: [TMG] Alternative to Marriage Tag
>
>At 20:58 29/08/2005 -0500, Teresa wrote:
> >I don't create a tag at all. Just attach mom to the children and dad to
>the
> >children. No need for a marriage tag at all.
>
>Teresa,
>
>This advice has its pitfalls.
>
>It is highly desirable that there be a dated Marriage Group tag for such
>relationships *if* a person has more than one of these "partnerships", or
>some "partnerships" and some Marriages.
>
>If you do not provide TMG with a dated Marriage Group event, then outputs
>that rely on these to order descendants will output them in a potentially
>incorrect sequence. In particular, the Descendant Indented Chart, the
>Descendant Box Chart and the Hourglass Box Chart. This may also apply to
>some narrative reports (but I seldom use these).
>
>
>Robin Lamacraft (Adelaide, Australia)
>
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