Hi I use a "researcher" source to find them and add them as a person also even if they are not linked to the main tree Alan -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 11/2/19, Rowan Sylvester-Bradley <rowan@sylvesterbradley.org> wrote: Subject: [TMG] Correspomdemnts within TMG To: "The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List" <tmg@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, 11 February, 2019, 17:32 I often wish that TMG could keep a record of all the people that I have corresponded with over the years about family history. I have not been able to find a way of doing this within TMG so I have created a speradsheet to do it. Arguments in favour of being able to do it within TMG seem to be: 1. Some of these people are related to me, so are in my TMG database     already. 2. TMG has all the features for recording the names, addresses etc. of     people, so why invent another way? 3. Since I often have multiple sources from a single perosn, it would     seem to avoid duplicating data if I could just enter this person's     details once, then refer to it from each source. Can TMG do this? If so, how? Could I configure it (or hack it in some way) so that it can do this? How? Is HRE going to be able to do this? Many thanks - Rowan _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/tmg@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Alan, Thanks for your reply. Please can you explain what you mean by "a researcher source". I can of course add each correspondent as a person even if they are not related to anyone in my tree. And I could I suppose create a custom field withing the Source Definition and put in there the ID of the person. But then I would need to generate a meaningful piece of text in the report (or the SecondSite website) giving the name of the person as well as their ID. Is this possible? How? Thanks - Rowan On 11/02/19 22:36, ALAN HALE via TMG wrote: > Hi > > I use a "researcher" source to find them and add them as a person also even if they are not linked to the main tree > > Alan > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 11/2/19, Rowan Sylvester-Bradley <rowan@sylvesterbradley.org> wrote: > > Subject: [TMG] Correspomdemnts within TMG > To: "The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List" <tmg@rootsweb.com> > Date: Monday, 11 February, 2019, 17:32 > > I often wish that TMG could keep a record of > all the people that I have > corresponded with over the years about > family history. I have not been > able to find a way of doing this within > TMG so I have created a > speradsheet to do it. Arguments in > favour of being able to do it within > TMG seem to be: > > 1. Some of these people are related to > me, so are in my TMG database >     already. > 2. TMG has all the features for > recording the names, addresses etc. of >     people, so why invent > another way? > 3. Since I often have multiple sources > from a single perosn, it would >     seem to avoid duplicating > data if I could just enter this person's >     details once, then refer > to it from each source. > > Can TMG do this? If so, how? > > Could I configure it (or hack it in > some way) so that it can do this? How? > > Is HRE going to be able to do this? > > Many thanks - Rowan > > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/tmg@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by > Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community > > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/tmg@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community -- -- Rowan Sylvester-Bradley 22 Fox Green Great Bradley Newmarket Suffolk CB8 9NR United Kingdom Phone: 01440 783157 Email: rowan@sylvesterbradley.org

Rowan asked: > Please can you explain what you mean by "a researcher source". > ... I could I suppose create a custom field withing > the Source Definition and put in there the ID of the person. > But then I would need to generate a meaningful piece of text in > the report (or the SecondSite website) giving the name of the person > as well as their ID... Not required, Rowan. Both TMG and Second Site are already know how to deal with this. As I mentioned in my earlier reply, the trick is to > use one of the People Source Elements > (Author, Compiler, Editor, Subject, Second Person) as the field within the Source Definition. You only need to enter the ID number of a person in the project in that field. Both TMG and SecondSite will *automatically* replace the ID number in one of those fields with the Primary name of that person. The name will show in the TMG screen display or TMG report of any citation to that source. And in SecondSite that name will *automatically* be a hyperlink to that person's page in the site, whether the name appears in a citation on a person page or in the Source entry in the Source List. There is nothing else needed to identify or link to this person than putting the ID number in one of these special Source Element fields. It really is that simple!! Michael