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From: "Bob Keener" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] How to record land owners
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:54:28 -0400
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Patt,
Thanks for the detailed explanation. The ingenuity of genealogists
never ceases to amaze me! It probably comes from the need to scale, flank,
or simply overwhelm our brick walls.
Bob Keener

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Subject: Re: [TMG] How to record land owners


> Bob,
>
> The History tag as Lee said is a group of witnesses. It has no sentences
but
> you can construct one.
>
> As an example: I am a descendant of William Brewster of the Mayflower. So
I
> added a History tag for him and the memo simply says "Voyage of the
> Mayflower" with a date of 1620. Whenever I add any people who were on the
> Mayflower I add them to this History tag.
>
> To keep track of the history tags I have created a History person. That
way I
> won't have to remember a person that participated in the event. Whenever I
> have an event I want to group with a history tag I add this History person
as
> a particpant to the event. I can then easily find the History person in
the
> picklist and add any new person to the History tag. I find that whenever I
> have alot of people that participate in any event the history tag allows
me
> to check other people in that event much easier. I have about 16 history
tags
> currently in my History person. For example: I have The Mayflower, the
> Fortune, voyage of the Anne, division of cattle, the John and Mary, the
> Winthrope fleet, Bloody Brook masacre, Haynes Garrison, Falls fight,
> Deerfield capture, etc.
>
> This allows me to check old sources for any new person I add. It can
easily
> find participants in an event and check sentences that I created and how I
> handled certain discrepancies, etc., etc.
>
> Thanks for the info on the Catawba. David is not mine as far as I know.
But
> I'll keep it in mind for further research. I have a Margaret Snodgrass m
> Alexander Leeper and her brother Alexander Snodgrass m Margaret Leeper. I
> think they went from PA to VA and of course could have gone further south
to
> North Carolina.
>
> Thanks again. If I haven't made my History tag system clear let me known
> Patt Ricketts
>
> << Thanks for the good suggestions. I'm not quite sure how you use
the
> History tag, however.
> Would you just list the land owners in the memo field?
> The Catawba River flows through western North Carolina. It begins in
> the Blue Ridge Mountains and flows eastward through the middle of the
state
> and then takes a sharp bend southward, through Charlotte and down into
South
> Carolina where it eventually becomes the Cooper River flowing into the
ocean
> at Charlestown. The area west of the Catawba was settled in the mid-18th
> century by a group of primarily Germans and Scotch-Irish coming down the
> Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania.
> I checked Lorena Eaker's "German Speaking People West of the Catawba
> River. . . " and found one mention of a David Snodgrass married to a
Linney
> Bradley. Ring any bells?
> Thanks again for the advice. >>
>
>

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