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From: Barbara de Mare <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Why the confusion? Sources
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:01:22 -0700 (PDT)


OK--I will reveal my stupidity.  What are maintenance routines?  And how do we learn about such things?  I don't believe they are covered in Terry's book, and I was told at FGS that that is the only book there is--the prior one is out of print.

 
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----- Original Message ----
From: GRSwede <>
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:39:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Why the confusion? Sources

Teresa
Make it a point to do maintenance routines shortly after fixing a few of the
items in the data.  I have found that keeps TMG from garbling things.
John

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]On
Behalf Of Teresa Elliott
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 5:33 PM
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Subject: [TMG] Why the confusion? Sources


Was working on adding parents as witnesses to birth tags tonight and noticed
that a source was inappropriately attached to a birth tag. I searched for
the places this source #8 (deed source) was attached. It was attached to 4
birth tags that should be attached to source #537 (FGS source) and the deed
it belonged to.

What I can't figure out is how TMG confused these two sources.
1) Numerically they are 529 sources apart.
2) Alphabetically they are from D- F apart (Deed-X and FGS-X).

There's no way one was created by copying the other since they use different
source types.  I couldn't have picked the wrong one from the list since they
are no where near each other, no matter how you sort the source list. I
doubt I would have typed in 8 when I meant 537.

Any suggestions as to how this source could have gotten used wrong?

I am also having Clean up déjà vu lately too. I swear I have fixed this
source issue before.  The other day I had multiple repositories attached to
sources, that I swear I had cleaned up before.  Could TMG be forgetting
cleanup I have already done?

Teresa Ghee Elliott
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