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From: "Jill Morelli" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Source List
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:21:54 -0500
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Berkeley,

Prayer card, funeral handbills, funeral notes etc. are a printed "agenda" of
the funeral service (at least mine are). The oldest one I have is 1950 but
others may know when they came into being.

In addition to the "agenda", most of mine include a LOT of genealogical
information about the person who has died...BMDB + location, survivors,
those who died before, parent's names and sometimes, information about the
parents and immigration info. I treat the death and burial information as a
surety of 3 but the rest as a 1 until it can be confirmed. Sometimes all
there is ....is the prayer and burial and death information.

I have them for about 10 or so relatives and I use the format of the
"obituary" as my source.

I would be interested in knowing if this tradition started in the Midwest or
elsewhere. I suspect that technology (i.e. mimeographs) had to be invented
before these became commonplace.

Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Berkley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Source List


> Could you please enlighten me, and possibly others, as to your reference
to
> "prayer cards". I have never heard the term before.
>
> Berkley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Churchett" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Source List
>
>
> > David,
> >
> > I too have many prayer cards, which I use mainly as secondary sources of
> > info since I've found so many of the names or dates to be incorrect--but
> > I want them in my source list so that the fact I have them is
> > documented. And sometimes they are my only source of a date.
> >
> > I did not see any categories that suited the prayer card. I am in the
> > process of designing my own custom source for it but haven't written the
> > FF, SF, or bibliography output forms yet. The fields I will include
> > will simply be name and birth and death dates since that's all the info
> > on the prayer card. I will probably also include the funeral home as
> > the publisher so that the source of the information is clear to the
> > reader, and all the prayer cards I've gotten so far have that printed at
> > the bottom.
> >
> > If you come up with anything else, please post it. I'd like to see what
> > you end up with.
> >
> > If you don't have very many prayer cards and it's not worth your time to
> > create a custom source, then you might just enter it as an obituary.
> >
> > --Elizabeth
> >
> > David Potembski wrote:
> >
> > >I have a prayer card from a funeral with pertinant birth/death date
info
> on
> > >it to enter into TMG. I cannot figure what source to use. I am using
> the
> > >latest version TMG 4.0d.
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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