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From: "Karen E. Willard" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: New user question re tombstones
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:29:49 -0700


KT. wrote:

>When recording citations from compiled cemetery tombstone records, I
>have been recording the details from the stones under the Burial tag.
>Correct? Couldn't find a tombstone/gravestone tag.
>
>I would like to be able to show somewhere/somehow that other persons
>are buried at the same site or stone --- but obviously, these persons
>are not "witnessess" to the event. Am reluctant to call them witnesses
>as it may be misconstrued that they were live witnesses to the burial.
>Is there anyway to do this and show the information like witness
>information is shown or would it have to be shown in the memo attached
>to the burial info and then repeat this memo for each person?


KT:


Think of the witness option on the burial tag as an opportunity to say
something about someone else buried nearby. So you assign the cemetery
neighbors as "witnesses" but you alter each individual witness sentence
to say precisely what you want to say. Something like "[W] is buried two
plots to the west of [P]" or something else. Whatever you want.

Getting over and past the stumbling block of thinking of the witness
option on the tags as requiring literally that the persons be a witness
in the plain english meaning of the term will represent a giant leap
forward in your ability to use TMG. -- we've all gone through it! <grin>

--Karen Willard
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