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From: "Cliff Soderback" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Place of death
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 14:11:03 -0700
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> Cliff - Under the Rules of Evidence, family records fall under the
> exceptions to the Hearsay Rule and are, therefore, admissible..
>
> "Family Records. Statements of fact concerning personal or family history
> contained in family Bibles, genealogies, charts, engravings on rings,
> inscriptions on family portraits, tattoos, engravings on urns, crypts, or
> tombstones, or the like."
>
> See Fed. R. Evid. 803. All in all, there are 23 exceptions to the Hearsay
> Rule.
>
> CheriC
>

I was using the word in its commonly used sense. I didn't intend to
get drawn in a legal quagmire, there are all sorts of lawyers who make
their life's work doing this.

I would think that admiting a genealogy certainly could be very open to
challange. Then again, I don't think I want to progess down that road.

Cliff Soderback



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