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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] RE: TMG-L: Beginner's Problems
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 20:53:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: <7B3D67AA81EBD111AC4000A0C96B23F7067F927E@orsmsx32.jf.intel.com>


Grawrock, David wrote:
>The idea that I learned the most from Evidence was the evaluation of a
>source. The fun only starts when you have a document in front of you. Asking
>those questions of who did it, when they did it, why they did it and what
>axe they have to grind is where "real" genealogy starts.
>
>I have two dates for my grandmother. One date is a public record made at the
>time of her birth, the other date comes from the rest of her life where she
>celebrated another day. For now I have no way to resolve this problem.
>
>The question I ask now is should I spend effort in resolving this problem.
>It doesn't change any real genealogical issues, 3 days in 1911 will not make
>a difference, her parents remain the same etc. I am currently just marking
>the discrepancy and moving on, but is that right?

What I do in these cases is pick the one _I_think_ is most correct and then
add a caveat somewhere stating the discrepancy. Depending on the report
type that you select, the style of your writing and possibly other factors,
you may decide to create two Birth tags with one being the Primary (or your
chosen "correct") tag. Or you may decide to create only the one Birth Tag
using the "correct" data that you choose. Then you might include a
description of the dicrepancy in either the Memo field or in the Citation
Detail. In either case, the discrepancy may be included in the text body
or in footnotes/endnotes as you think best.

Hope this helps -


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