Hi I also use a Custom Flag as well Alan -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 15/2/19, Constance Chappell Horne <constancehorne@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: [TMG] Re: BDM Certificates To: "The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List" <tmg@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, 15 February, 2019, 20:55 I would suggest a custom flag instead. It would be easier to add/remove that designation. Constance On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:46 PM Tim Hill <timandpolly@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an idea that I would like some feedback on. > > In my tree I have a lot of people and for most of them, I don't actually > have their birth, death or marriage certificates. Instead, I have other > documents with varying degrees of surety. > > For the people that I am closest to, I would like to get the certificates > when I get the time and money to do so, but in the meantime I want a method > in TMG to identify which certificates I have and which I don't have. > > To do this, I was thinking of creating three new tag types. These would be > direct copies of my standard Birth, Death and Marriage tags, but with the > suffix of '-C' so 'Birth'-C'. They would function identically to their > corresponding tag, but would indicate that I had the certificate for this > event. > > Then I could run reports on my project that showed me which certificates I > still had outstanding for my ancestors. I could also see at a glance on my > TMG person screen if I had the certificates for that person by looking for > the '-C' suffice on the BDM tags. > > All my certificates are stored in the same place, so it shouldn't be an > insurmountable job to change the tag types... > ... But before I go ahead I would be interested in hearing if people could > point out the flaw in my plan or suggest a better way. > > Thanks, > > Tim from Melbourne > > _______________________________________________ > 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