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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Burial Expenses
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:27:42 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040601171408.038093f8@pop3.norton.antivirus>


The main reason to put it in is just because it's interesting. <G> A shirt
for $2.00. Or that he built his own casket. Or that he had a horse drawn
carriage instead of a hearse.
In most cases, it gets listed in probate because it is one of the bills that
has to be paid out of the estate. It can tell you either A) how wealthy
your ancestor was, or B) how gullible his widow was. ;)

Teresa Ghee Elliott
Any information I give that you can't find in your version of TMG 5.1 is
probably due to customization on my part.
For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org
For TMG sentences
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html>;

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:20 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Burial Expenses

JOHN AMBURGEY wrote:
>My grandfather's burial was handled by a funeral home that now has been
>out of business for many years, but fortunately another funeral home had
>saved all the records and gave me copies. Question: where and how should
>this expense information be input into TMG? Death tag? Burial tag? or a
>custom tag? Thanks in advance.

Expense information? I would not bother. But if I were to enter it, I
would probably put it in the Burial Tag. An alternative might be to create
a Custom Tag for Funeral Expenses using an appropriate Tag Sentence. I
would not use the Custom option unless there were "many" expected
uses (many probably being more than about two or three).

In either case, I'd enter the expenses in the Tag Memo.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)


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