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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Conflicting Info
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:05:45 -0500
References: <2006316142452.353595@Terry3><001201c64950$e63f0960$6601a8c0@D9Z0TR71>


Don Litzer wrote:

> Terry,
>
> This thread has raised an issue I've tried to sort out in my head, and
> I know I brought it up last year, but I'm kinda thick-headed with
> sentence structures and it has to roll around in the cranium a bit
> first but I think it's coming...
>
> I'm cogitating about the best way to handle cause of death
> information--a good example of a frequently occurring data element
> connected to a particular type of event. Obviously, one approach
> would be to create a custom tag, or put the info in a generic info
> tag. For sake of argument, let's not go there.


Don, are you talking about conflicting info on the cause of death? Or is
this message just a follow up to that thread?

I put the cause of death in the Death Tag memo. If I do not want it to
print in reports I either put an exclusion marker in front of the Memo
sentence or sensitivity brackets {} around the cause of death info. .
By selecting to have excluded or sensitive information print you can
have it print for your own info.

If you have information in the Tag memo, some you want to print an all
reports and some you want to hide, the sensitivity Brackets allow you to
selct the info.

>
>
> So, that option aside, am I reading you (and your web site) correctly
> that:
> --if I want text discussing a cause of death to show up in the body of
> a *report*, I could enter the synthesized data (say, a phrase noting
> conflicting sources) in the death tag's Note field, then change the
> sentence structure (either globally or tag-by-tag) of the death tag to
> include the Note text, or...
> --if I want text discussing a cause of death or related info (say, the
> identity of a death certificate's informant if I didn't feel like
> adding him/her as a witness) in a report's *footnote*, I'd want to
> enter that text in the Citation Detail field.


You can add <[M]> to the global Death Tag.

>
>
> Feel free to point me to your web site if I need to go back to school
> on this...thanks!
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Reigel" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Conflicting Info
>
>
>> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:39:45 -0500, Wayne Colton wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Again, If I know the correct information because I
>>> am a close member of this family, why can't I just put
>>> the correct info in with a note or whatever to explain
>>> the that the census takers were wrong or had recieved the
>>> wrong information. I remember someone saying put the info
>>> that is found in as it is(do not change it}
>>
>>
>> You should put in the correct information. But you should also make
>> note of the wrong info so that readers later will know that you knew
>> of it and rejected it, and why.
>>
>> How you take note of it is a clear matter, however. <g>
>>
>> In my view, the information you record in Tags is your conclusions -
>> what you believe the correct data to be. Here's how I manage it
>> conflicts and errors:
>>
>> - If the error is minor and clearly an error, I just mention in the CD
>> of the citation to the source with the error what that source said,
>> and if significant enough, add some text to explain why I think it's
>> wrong.
>>
>> - If sources conflict, and the "correct" information is not obvious, I
>> record what each source said in the CD of their citations, then add a
>> "Conclusions" source (which has no output except the CD) and describe
>> the conflict and why I believe what I enter in the tag. I sort that
>> "source" to be last.
>>
>> - If the error is really serious, especially if I see others have used
>> the information I believe to be wrong, I do enter it in a tag so that
>> it appears in the body of the report, and not in the footnotes. For
>> this purpose I have two custom tag types - Research Note, which I use
>> to fully describe the issues in my TMG reports and formal sites
>> created with Second Site; and WebNote - where I enter a brief comment
>> that I use on my public web pages and my posting to WorldConnect.
>>
>> Others will no doubt offer different suggestions. <g>
>>
>>
>> Terry Reigel
>>
>>
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