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From: Karla Huebner <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: land transactions
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:10:39 -0500


Frankie,

You answered my question, but not with the answer I was hoping for <g>. If
I'm going to write free-form sentences that consist solely of [M], I use
the Anecdote tag. Otherwise I create a Tag Sentence structure that gives
me some reason to fill in the location fields (why would I bother if
they're not going to appear in a sentence?) and that ends in <[M]> so I can
put in the miscellaneous details.

It may be, however, that land transactions are so varied that your solution
is the smartest way to go. Thus far I've done a few homesteads (with a
Homestead tag, using the first date and then having the memo hold
everything else about the homestead up to the date of proving up), and this
summer I discovered a batch of transactions in a country Grantee index book
from c 1907-10. Since I didn't have a chance to locate further
documentation on these transactions, I just threw whatever the index gave
me into tags (I forget which one), to be figured out later. Some were
between relatives, some not. I must say it gave me a new perspective on my
g-g-grandmother, who seems to have spent most of her time acquiring land--I
guess all that additional farming kept her youngest son and my grandfather
out of mischief.

Karla

Message text written by INTERNET:
>I'm not sure what you mean by "structure". I just create the name of a
tag
that I want. As for Tag Sentences, I don't tend to use standard TMG
Sentences, but I usually just type out what I want in the Sentence field,
for
example: "In 1819, Jesse Liles of Union County, South Carolina, sold 946
acres in Union County to Nathaniel Gist, also of Union County, for five
shillings. [M]" [This pretty obviously was a gift upon the marriage of a
daughter.) I put the rest of the information in the deed in the Memo
field.
You can make another party to a deed the [PO], for example, or a [W].
Which
persons you wish to add to your data base is a personal decision. I will
add
them to my data base as Witnesses (for example, witnesses to the deed) if
they were very closely allied to my family or inlaws.

Let me know if this doesn't answer your question, Karla.

Frankie
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