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From: Allen Mellen <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L: curious question
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 20:57:10 -0400
In-Reply-To: <028301bfb3c4$00983440$a3032526@0016374473>


arlene wrote:
>I know who all of my gps were (I knew them), knew my parents and their
>siblings -- including birth, marriage and death dates. I even know where and
>when they lived in a particular house/apt...
>
>Do I have to go & "prove" all of this????
>
>I do have paper proof, just wanted to know if it is really necessary to go
>looking for all papers, etc.
>
>Just an odd question.....curiousity got the best of me...(:-D
Here's what I do. I enter whatever source I have for parents and
grandparents -- even great grandparents. I haven't sought documentation
for them except in a few cases where I need it to work farther back.

I have no particular reason, except that I prefer to expend my energy
solving problems, not documenting what I already know to be the case. Let
my successors fill in the blanks.

Allen
Allen Mellen -- New York, NY
http://www.geocities.com/allenmellen

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