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From: "Judy Madnick" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] How to set names was RE: Name changes in narratives
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:33:31 -0400


From: "Teresa Elliott" <>

<< Each tag for a person has a drop down box beside that
<< person's name where
<< you can select a new name tag to print for that specific tag.

Okay, I see that.

<< So what you need to do is create a name tag for Samuel
<< Frishland and make
<< that name primary. It will now be his name on the person view
<< screen.

<< Now create another name tag (I actually would create a
<< custom name tag
<< called NAME-CHANGE if I were you. We can tell you how to do
<< that if you
<< aren't sure). In this tag record his name as Samuel Frish, with
<< a date of
<< 1919.

That I have.

<< Now for every tag after 1919, you will need to open the drop
<< down box, and
<< select the name Frish from the list. TMG does not do this
<< automatically. It
<< would be awesome if it did, but you do have to tell it what you
<< want it to
<< use.

It's still coming up with "Samuel Frishland" on narrative reports even though I've selected the "Frish" surname in the drop-down box.

I must be forgetting something.

Judy

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