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Subject: Re: [TMG] RE: Land Tags
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:13:04 EDT


Grace,

Re your question on how I handle the Grantor and Grantee. I believe this is a
very individual, person, choice. I write out my own Sentences in the Tag
Entry screen. Sometimes I use grantor and or grantee as a principal or other
principal, and sometimes I do not. In my personal preference, it depends on
whether they are family or inlaws or neighbors. If I have a man selling land
and a wife relinquishing her dower right to it, for example, I will make them
the principal and other principal, although I mostly write out their names
and do not use [P] and [PO]. One of the reasons for this is that, often, the
Clerks of Court wrote down names as they sounded or *thought* they were
spelled and not as the person *signed* their name. In *all* of my records, I
put the actual way the names were written into TMG. If the recorded name was
different from the person's signature, I put the recorded name in italics.

What I put in the Sentence is the grantor and grantee, the date, the
location, the waterway (in very early deeds), the legal description (if it is
not a metes and bounds description), and sometimes the adjoining land owners
or witness/witnesses. This really varies on the particular situation.
Generally, in the early deeds, I put the waterway (river, creek, etc.) detail
field below the date field.

What you should know is that I've had a problem with this way of doing things
because, when I print an Individual Detail Report, the Sentences *do not
print*. I am trying to request that Wholly Genes make adding the Sentences to
this report an option, since this is the report I use to exchange data with
other researchers (when we are trying to find a "lost" cemetery, for example).

My advice would be to think about this before you make a decision. I made my
decisions on this some years ago, then I converted to TMG from another
program. I could not possibly go back and change thousands and thousands of
tags, and I am not clear on how other people deal with inputting land data
and not having the Sentences print out. Perhaps others could provide advice
or examples on this.

Hope this helps you out a little.

Frankie

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