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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Place of death
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 01:10:27 -0500
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At 08:49 AM 6/1/02 -0400, Karla Huebner wrote:
>Not everyone is as smart as we are. (or maybe logical)
> ;)
>
>Karla
>
>
>At 06:09 PM 5/31/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>Kathy,
>>I do exactly like you do, and I don't think it is misleading to anyone unless
>>they are assuming more than you are telling them. My children were born in
>>Huntsville, Al. We weren't living there. Why would you assume that if
>>someone died in a hospital they were living in that town?
>>Teresa Ghee Elliott

Hi, Karla:

Here's are three questions I have been wondering about:

1. How many of us have shown a genealogical report or chart to someone on
which there was indicated "d. 1900, Town, ST", or abbreviations or phrasing
to nearly the same effect, and had that person actually indicate that they
thought it meant "Town, ST" was where the deceased was living in 1900?

2. If anyone has actually had that experience (in three decades, I have
not), did the person who misunderstood actually defend their thinking,
after a simple explanation?

3. If you have had the experience, and the person persisted in the
misunderstanding, could you characterize whether this person is likely to
ever understand or learn from the other genealogical details you provided
to him or her?

I think we are worried that when a unicorn comes to the garden, it will be
upset that we planted no carrots [grin].

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois



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