On 9/27/14, 5:51 PM, LornaMoa via wrote: > Julie, > I'm curious how you coped with RM only having a Principal role for P1. > I've some 5,000 events over a number of tags in my TMG data where P1 has > a role other than principal, with associated sentences that do assorted > things, eg link to specific websites or simply make the narrative > reports less bog standard/more interesting. > Without the context of the role, a lot of these don't make much sense. > To convert my main db to RM I'd be spending rather a lot of precious > research time working on these 5,000+ creating adiditonal fact types to > work around this issue, which clutters the fact/tag type list, > unnecessarily in my opinion. > > Lorna Henderson > http://LornaHen.com > In looking at RM, my thought is that if you have multiple roles you use for the principal, you convert them to different Fact types, so, for example, if you had a "out of wedlock" role for the child in a birth tag, it would become a Birth-OutOfWedlock tag (so it could have its own sentence). The one thing this doesn't handle is 2 principal tags, but unless they are spouses they are going to need to be changed anyway. The biggest problem I see for me would be that my marriage tag put the "Marriage Number" for the bride and groom into roles. My guess is that I will need to move this to the description field to keep the information. I see transferring to do this to be fairly labor intensive unless I can write something to automate it on the TMG side. -- Richard Damon

Agreed - I have roles such as bride, groom, second, third These aren't handled really well but can fix via the sentences. The people with multiple marriages where the roles are "second" etc. are imported alright- I can fix the sentences. Sent from Julie's iPhone Visit www.jrwhiskey.com > On Sep 27, 2014, at 7:01 PM, Richard Damon via <tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> On 9/27/14, 5:51 PM, LornaMoa via wrote: >> Julie, >> I'm curious how you coped with RM only having a Principal role for P1. >> I've some 5,000 events over a number of tags in my TMG data where P1 has >> a role other than principal, with associated sentences that do assorted >> things, eg link to specific websites or simply make the narrative >> reports less bog standard/more interesting. >> Without the context of the role, a lot of these don't make much sense. >> To convert my main db to RM I'd be spending rather a lot of precious >> research time working on these 5,000+ creating adiditonal fact types to >> work around this issue, which clutters the fact/tag type list, >> unnecessarily in my opinion. >> >> Lorna Henderson >> http://LornaHen.com >> > In looking at RM, my thought is that if you have multiple roles you use > for the principal, you convert them to different Fact types, so, for > example, if you had a "out of wedlock" role for the child in a birth > tag, it would become a Birth-OutOfWedlock tag (so it could have its own > sentence). > > The one thing this doesn't handle is 2 principal tags, but unless they > are spouses they are going to need to be changed anyway. The biggest > problem I see for me would be that my marriage tag put the "Marriage > Number" for the bride and groom into roles. My guess is that I will need > to move this to the description field to keep the information. > > I see transferring to do this to be fairly labor intensive unless I can > write something to automate it on the TMG side. > > -- > Richard Damon > > *** > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the message subject and body. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message