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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Mills Source for Memorial?
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 19:56:09 -0400
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Lew wrote:
>
>
> I agree. I think that we need a new computer friendly standard. All
> sources should be entered beginning with the most general to the most
> specific. That is, all details should be considered proper if entered in
> the CD. That means that a source for a census would not begin with the name
> of the head of household. It would be included in the CD.
>

I think that is what many TMG users do. I can understand in a typed
book using the HoH as the Source. But in a computer program it doesn't;
make sense to me.

I have converted my sources to go from General to Specific, usually with
the specific in the CD.

Actually in a Census source I do not enter the HoH at all. The ED,
Sheet and Line numbers are more than adequate to find the entry.

In obituaries, I do include the name of the obit subject, but the
Newspaper is the source with Obituary Mary Reinhardt Smith 12 May 1945
in the CD.

bob gillis

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