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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Wording
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:30:44 -0500
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At 02:50 PM 8/31/03 -0400, Patty Gibson wrote:
>Actually, I would think that "known children are" is the correct tense.
>Using past tense would indicated that at one time these were his
>children but that they aren't anymore.
>
>Patty

Hi, Patty:

Agreed. Or alternatively, the past tense might indicate that at one point
we knew (these) to be his children but now we don't ... which means the
list of children would *always* be incorrect.

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/

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