Vince41

Note the double commas. Change "<, [PAR],>" to "<[PAR]>" and you'll get one comma. Grant THOMPSON Jr (1), son of Grant Paul THOMPSON (2) and Amy PARSON (3), was born ... Thanks, I fixed the error. Vince

Terry, I did test it. It works. When you pointed out the error in the first sentence, I went back and broke the sentence down and noticed that if the doctor was missing, the time of birth still printed creating a grammatical error. I moved the time variable ,[M1]>, to before the date and the sentence works with single or multiple variables missing. I've set up several tags with multiple conditional variables. They all seem to work. I've created one for both Birth and Baptism. They both work perfectly. Birth: [P]<, [PAR],>was born< at [M1]> <[D]> <[L]>. <The attending physician was [R:MD]>. <[PFS] birth certificate number is [M2]>. Below is a copy of the output of the above sentence. Individual Narrative of Grant Thompson Jr (1) Grant THOMPSON Jr (1),, son of Grant Paul THOMPSON (2) and Amy PARSON (3), was born at 1:23 am on 5 Jun 2007 at United Hospital, Port Chester, Westchester, NY, USA. The attending physician was Dr Gene PENOCK (4). Grant's (1) birth certificate number is 12345. Printed on: 8 Jan 2009 Prepared by: Grant Thompson

Terry You're right. Move <at [M1]> to before <[D]>. That works. Vince

I've built a birth sentence that uses the role MD. Create the role in the birth tag. Enter the name of the doctor into the list of names. Add thhe doctor to the witness list as MD. Enter time of birth as [M1] and birth certificate number as [M2]. The sentence becomes: [P]<, [PAR],> was born <[D]> <[L]>. <[PF] was delivered by [R:MD]>< at [M1]>. <[PFs] birth certificate number is [M2]>. [P] is the child's name, [PF] is the child's first name [PFS] is the child's first name possessive [D] and [L] you know [R:MD] is the role of the delivring doctor [M1} is the time of birth (witch I think should be a varialbe) [M2] is the birth certificate number. [PAR] gives you son/daughter of dad and mom with maiden name you don't need to make a male and female sentence since [PAR] creates the sentence as daughter or son depending on the gender of the child. Hope this helps

I created a new sentence for the Baptism tag. I opened Tools, opened Master Tag Type List, and selected Baptism. I created a new sentence: [P1] was baptised <by [R:Pate]> <[D]> <[L]>. <The sponsers were [R:Sponser1]< and [R:Sponser2].> <The event eas witnessed by <[W]> I accept the changes. When I go back to a previously created Baptism tag, nothing changes. The original sentence remains in the tag. When I go back to check the edited sentence, all the changes I made are there. Did I do something wrong? Is there a way to globally change the tag sentences? I'm using TMG v7.03. My OS is Win XP SP3. If you need any other information, please let me know.

Thanks for the help. I followed your suggestions and it worked. Thanks again.

I keep the relationship option on so I can keep track of the relationship of decendants to myself. I've found what might be a flaw. My aunt on my mothers side had two sons. They show up as having no relationship to me. They should be first cousins once removed, I think. Am I wrong?

Thanks for the tips. I've added a button to the tool bar. Works fine. Thanks again.