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Does anyone know what this means? AFGS 2 STAT DONTDOIT I have seen this on several of the people

Shirley Arnell
Shirley Arnell ✭
February 9, 2021 edited February 10, 2021 in General Questions
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  • JeffWiseman
    JeffWiseman ✭✭✭
    February 9, 2021

    If it is in the notes area, it is likely someone's personal secret code or abbreviations that only they understand. A lot of this type of thing has been imported from notes that were created in, and specific to PAF or Ancestral Quest (and possibly other PC tools). In those applications there were ways to search your database notes for things that you might call "flags" or "tags". Unfortunately when they are imported into the FSFT (usually by the use of GEDCOM files), we get all that extra garbage that is not useful to anyone else other than the originator.

     

    I wish that folks would not do that. I have some ancestors with 50-70 notes attached all containing that kind of gobbledy-gook. Makes it extremely hard to find notes that are really useful and informative.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 9, 2021

    probably only means anything to the person who entered it. and probably means nothing to the rest of us.

    (some sort of notes)

     

    try contacting the submitter if you can.

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  • JeffWiseman
    JeffWiseman ✭✭✭
    February 9, 2021

    Yes. The contact name for the person who last changed the note (usually the originator) can be seen at the bottom of the note when it is opened.

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  • Brett .
    Brett . ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 10, 2021

    @JeffWiseman JeffWiseman​ 

    Jeff

    EXACT 'Answer', from a User, to a FaceBook post, back on 28Dec2015.

    Brett

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