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Subject: Re: TMG-L: Data entry/Witnesses/help?
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 22:05:01 EDT

In a message dated 8/1/1999 12:05:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

<< Having found various township lists of trustees and other office-holders
which include several known and, importantly, suspected family members, I
am having difficulty figuring out how to enter the names in a format which
would be useful.

Would it be more useful to enter these neighbors as witnesses to the known
family member's event? Or to create a new sort of entity, a sort of
event-as-person, like "Township Offices 1831", and then list all these
people together as witnesses?

I'd appreciate hearing recommendations from others on the list as to what
they've done to manage the data that they've found, and how they then
access it. >>
Susan,

I'm not sure if this method will help you, but...

I use a History tag to group people like this. I have e.g. a history tag for
all the persons on the Mayflower. All those people on the Mayflower who are
in my database I put as witnesses. Then I create an immigration tag for that
person for printing purposes. (I don't print the history tag - just use it
for grouping purposes) You could create a history tag listing all the people
on the tax list with a research task to do further research on the suspected
family ties.

One thing further, I created a history person that I use so that I can easily
view (and find) any history tags I have.

Patt Ricketts
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