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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Spouses even though no marriage shown?
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 12:31:13 -0700
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On or about 07/05/04 02:02 a carrier pigeon from Tim Powys-Lybbe delivered:

>Genealogy, we record whatever we know of the members of the family. A
>period of time cohabiting is significant and might well be worth
>recording.

To my way of thinking, that would be a shared RESIDENCE event,
with the two listed as principles. Nothing related to any variation of a
marriage tag.


>What I have established is that a tag can be created in TMG's marriage
>group with the name, perhaps, of "Cohabiting". I did this, I entered no
>further data, and was delighted to see the happy couple linked together
>in the family and tree displays.

Fine -- as mentioned, I'd put that situation into a residence
event. Without children forming a link, all it shows is that they had the
same address, not what they did (or didn't) do together (unless one adds a
memo to that effect).

Or do you also have a tag for couples that do everything your
"cohabiting" pair do, except they still live at separate addresses? Hmmm,
does TMG have an event for "married, living separately"?


>All that TMG needs to create is a tag in the marriage group with the
>tag name of "Unmarried" or "Cohabiting". It works fine when done by
>hand. It can work just as fine when importing from Generations. It

(Devil's advocate role here) But what if I want that to be
imported as a residence event?

To me, the basis of the BMDB groups is that they, at least, tend
to have an existance in church or civil records. They are the minimum that
someone else could be expected to find records of...

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