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Subject: Re: [TMG] Place of death
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:49:04 EDT


There probably is no correct way to handle this, but everyone has their
opinion and I will give you mine. I generally do not fill in primary fields
of data bases at all unless I have some sort of primary record of the event.
So for me, the place of death ought to be where the record of the death lives
. My own father died in a St Louis Veterans Hospital while he lived in a
small town in Illinois some 60 miles away. I list him as dying in St Louis
because that is where the death certificate resides. So if a future reader of
my information wants to know something about my father's death he has a
primary record to go to and start from. Quite often I do not really know the
place of death for an early ancestor. The only record may be a gravestone in
a cemetery somewhere. Again I opt for where the record lives, in this case
the only record being the gravestone. Of course, I back up this information
with memos, footnotes etc explaining what ever needs to be explained. My
motto is "Follow the records".-Dale Mueller

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