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From: Walt <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tombstone tag
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:30:35 -0400
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Elizabeth

It is tombstone sources that I need help with.

Walt


At 03:55 PM 4/08/2003, Elizabeth Churchett wrote:
>A good place to start would be to make sure that you really do want to
>create a Tag--from what you wrote below, it might be enough to add the
>tombstones to your Master Source List (MSL) and then cite them on the
>Death or Burial Tag. It depends on whether you want whatever's written on
>the tombstone to be printed in the body of a narrative report. If you
>simply want to document the fact that you have personally seen the
>tombstones as well as possibly that they are your source for birth/death
>dates or marriages, then you are better off entering them as a source in
>your MSL and citing them in support of other Tags.
>
>If you want to go the MSL route, then let us know and I'm sure there will
>be some examples of tombstone sources sent out.
>
>--Elizabeth
>Austin, Texas
>
>Walt wrote:
>>I have some tombstones I have read and need to create a tag to document
>>them, but I feel lost when it comes to creating a tag. Can someone give
>>me pointers on what I should do here?


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