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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Baptisms and Christenings
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:50:43 -0500
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Karen Willard wrote:
>Users of these two tags need to understand that both of them belong to the
>"birth" group. Since many of my 20th century people were immersed as
>adults, and the event has absolutely no implications for their birth, I
>created a custom tag to record their event -- it often marked their formal
>induction into membership in a particular church -- that is not part of
>the birth group.
>
>Being in the birth group means that for certain types of narrative
>reports, the information in these tags will be presented in certain places
>(like in a 1st paragraph) not under the control of the date field or the
>sort field.

This is a good idea. I have a Custom Tag in the Other Tag Group called
Baptizm (note the spelling). Except for the fact that the two Tags are
spelled differently and are in different Tag Groups, they are essentially
the same. But as Karen indicates, there is a difference in meaning and
positioning of sentences in some reports.

As I noted earlier, you should use the appropriate Tag depending on the
practice of the associated church/denomination. Jon Raymond's discussion
is appropriate to the this thread, yet his discussion also includes a
definition used by some churches/denominations that are not used by others.

So if you use the term as shown in your source document, you will not be
wrong. The problem is whether the person was party to the event as a child
or as an adult and what the practice of the church was as to the meaning of
the term.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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