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From: "James E. (Jim) Campbell" <>
Subject: [TMG] Questions About Tags
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 08:38:57 -0400


I find myself in a dilemna. When I first started using TMG I chose to
have more generic sources as opposed to specific sources. For example,
one of my sources is the entire roll of film for the Census of 1860 for
Haywood County, NC. I could have chosen to have each household as a
source but chose not to. I provide the more specific information in the
Citation Detail. This minimizes the number of sources but has certain
disadvantages.

Now to my specific problem. I ran across a case last night that raises
questions for me as to how to proceed. For a specific family, I have
three separate sources of information. One is a heritage book that
lists the parents and five children. Another is an estates record for
the father that lists six children (five the same as the heritage
book). The third is a tombstone inscription for a child that lists him
as the son of the parents, but he is not among the children in the other
two sources. My sources are the heritage book, the Haywood County
Estates Records file in the NC State Archives, and a book of tombstone
information.

I used the usual birth and death tags to record this information, while
referencing the sources. So far, so good. However, the question arose
as to how someone following in my footsteps could piece this all back
together without a lot of work. How should I record the passage from
the heritage book, the information in the estates record, and the
tombstone inscription in their own tags to consolidate this
information? I hesitate to place all this information in the Citation
Detail of each of the birth and death tags because it would be
unnecessarily duplicated.

In a related question, sometimes I arrive at a conclusion by the
deductive process. Is there a tag (or other mechanism) in which I can
explain how I arrived at the conclusion that I did?

Thanks in advance,

Jim Campbell

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