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From: "John Cardinal" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Location of Birth
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 16:48:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010204131508.029fbec0@127.0.0.1>


Allen Mellen wrote:
> >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.

I did manufacture this particular case, but the situation occurs for real in
my Quebec roots. Also, if the program allows any of the birth group events
to participate in the "group common birth place" processing, then it
probably has to include the past tense verb. OTOH, Terry was saying that he
didn't know it worked that way; I'm sure you saw his post.

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