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From: Richard Brogger <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Proof or hearsay (was: Place of death)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 07:19:32 -0500
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Thank you Darrell,

You have expressed my feelings better than I could. I am trying to
assemble the best information about my family that I can find. I do
not intend to use that information in a court of law. Others can hire
detectives and lawers to find "proof" and make it legal evidence.

Richard Brogger

Darrell A Martin wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> When I provide output from TMG, I do not believe I am presenting "proof" of
> anything. Instead, what I am trying to do is present my current
> understanding about certain events, and provide the reader/viewer with the
> evidence which has led me to that understanding. In some cases, my
> understanding is, "I have no idea" and the reason is, "I have no evidence
> whatever". But in most cases, I can at least guess to within a decade or
> two, based on things like birth dates of parents or children, or their
> participation in dated events.
>
> Let's say I transcribed from Grand-Aunt Nellie's Bible that
> Great-Great-Grandpa Smith was born July 4, 1876, in Philadelphia,
> Pennsylvania, and that Bible was lost in a recent plane crash. I would have
> no hesitation in continuing to report GGGP Smith's birth as I have in the
> past. It is up to the reader/viewer to balance the evidence I present
> against any contrary evidence she or he might have, apply his or her own
> standards of evidence, and come to his or her own understanding. But if I
> have found information taken from that Bible to be reliable as corroborated
> by other sources I trust, and yet still say, "I have no idea when or where
> Great-Great-Grandpa Smith was born", I am misrepresenting the truth -- not
> necessarily about his birth, but certainly about whether I have an idea
> about it.
>
> And that is my opinion.
>
> Darrell
>
> Darrell A. Martin
> a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
>
>
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