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Subject: [TMG] Input from db software
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:07:03 EDT

Dear Ruth,

You wrote, in part:

For various reasons I collect people connected by geographical proximity or
who are of similar status. I then want to link them up into families - and
it's just so obvious to do this in TMG.

My response:

I don't fiddle with Access and strange things like that--not even
GEDCOM--because some of the stuff that comes from those is largely
undocumented (and boy, are the generations messed up!).

But, like you, I do collect people with whom my ancestors are associated.
Frequently, it turns up that earlier generations or even later generations
(like my paternal grandparents, for instance), married into these families.

I was trying to help a young woman with her DAR application. Found two
patriots in the same state (adjoining counties) with the same name and living
at the same time. And this was an unusual name--I thought. The DAR
genealogist said: You have to determine who the associates are and on what
watercourse each is living and then sort them out!!!

It took me two days to do that, using the DAR Library. Fortunately, I knew
into which families the kids had married. So I collected those!! Taught me
a useful lesson, especially since I have so many COMMON names among my
colonial Southern folks--and all the nephews were named for their uncles.

So you think TMG will accommodate my eccentricities? Good. I consider a
genealogy program as a TOOL and not a MASTER. Don't tell me what to do!!! I
personally need extensive documentation--pages of it.

E.W.Wallace
southern California
where we hold hands while we consider converting from UFT to TMG

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