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From: Allen Mellen <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Location of Birth
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 13:16:31 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <NDBBJJMPJKPBEPNBFPGAKEKADKAA.JCardinal@MediaOne.net>


John Cardinal wrote:
>How about this case:
>
>----------------------
>Children of George1 Bezanson and Mary Millet all born at Chester, Nova
>Scotia, were as follows:
> 2 i. Eunice Whitcomb2 Bezanson; baptized;6 Eunice
> Whitcomb married Henry
>Cross; died 1873.3
> 3 ii. Sarah Elizabeth Etter Bezanson; born 22 Jan
> 1808;3,6 Sarah Elizabeth
>Etter, age 20 married David Crandle Vaughan, age 23, son of Benjamin Vaughan
>and Sarah Ellis, 9 Sep 1828;7 died before 1864.3
>
>...
>----------------------
>
>As you can see, Eunice's primary birth tag is a baptism, not a birth. So the
>past tense verb associated with the tag carries information.

Do you really have evidence of a baptism without the date? That's unusual,
I think.

Allen

Allen Mellen -- New York, NY
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