Thank you Terry, Lee and Michael for your helpful answers. I have another question related to names. TMG automatically outputs a source entry (from an appropriate source group) that's entered as "surname, given name" to reports as "given name, surname" in the full footnote and only "surname" in the short footnote (and "surname, given name" in the bibliography). Is there a way to get TMG to do that automatically for names that are passed to a source as "surname, given name" through [CDx] as ||surname, given name||, or do I have to send it as two separate [CDx] as ||surname||given name|| and sort things out in the source definition? Thanks again!. Brian -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Michael J. Hannah via Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2015 3:43 PM To: TMG-L submission address Subject: Re: [TMG] Name-Var and Name-Marr Brian Gross asked: > I am trying to figure out the easiest way > to get TMG to generate name variations. Hi Brian, Lee and Terry mentioned the important point that a blank field in a non-Primary Name tag is only inferred from data in the one Primary Name tag. Further, to get a specific name other the the Primary name to be used in an event tag, you must select the desired name for that person within that event tag. One last point is that only the GivenName and Surname fields are inferred from the Primary Name tag. If there are any values desired for any fields other than these two fields they must be entered in the non-Primary Name tag as they are not inferred. There is much more to learn about Name tags. There is a lengthy set of notes in the "Names" section of the Data Entry chapter of my on-line book which may be of some help: http://www.mjh-nm.net/DATENTRY.HTML#Names Hope this gives you ideas, Michael The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 9/7/2015 1:12 PM, Brian Gross via wrote: > TMG automatically outputs a source entry (from an appropriate source group) > that's entered as "surname, given name" to reports as "given name, surname" > in the full footnote and only "surname" in the short footnote (and "surname, > given name" in the bibliography). > > Is there a way to get TMG to do that automatically for names that are passed > to a source as "surname, given name" through [CDx] as ||surname, given > name||, or do I have to send it as two separate [CDx] as ||surname||given > name|| and sort things out in the source definition? > > Thanks again!. You're welcome, Brian. The automatic management of names in source notes only applies to names entered in one of the "names" Source Types. TMG has no clue that any text you enter in a CD segment is to be treated as a name. If you want that result for names entered in the CD you will need to enter given names and surnames in separate segments and build the Templates accordingly. Terry Reigel