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From: Carol Lucian <>
Subject: New User Needs Help with Tags for Probate and Censuses
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:33:37 -0700 (PDT)


Thanks Terry and Teresa for your help with sources!

Now I have some more questions for everyone! I would
like some suggestions as to how to enter the various
documents found in a person’s probate file. In one
courthouse, where I have done research, some of these
boxes are packed with documents! I am a new user, and
I’m not sure what tag type I should use. The sentence
on the probate tag - [PP] estate was probated <[D]>
<[L]> - doesn’t seem applicable at all.

A deceased individual’s file box can contain wills,
estate appraisals and settlements, petitions to sell
real estate, guardian’s petitions, doctor’s accounts,
bills for coffins, etc., some of which prove the
parent-child relationship.

I think I would like to see these documents listed on
the Person View of the individual after the death or
burial tag. I don’t know if that’s a good idea or not,
as it keeps adding years to a person’s age after their
death, so I would like to get some idea of how other
people handle them.

I have been reading over the recent discussion of
census tags and it looks so complicated! I would like
to see the census entry for the whole household on the
Person View of the head of household along with the
ages, birthplaces, etc. of each member of the
household. And on thePerson View of each of the other
people in the household, a sentence stating that they
were enumerated in so-and-so’s household, along with
that individual’s age, birthplace, etc. Many of my
censuses are before 1850, however. It seems to me,
that if the sentence for the Census Tag was simply
[M], it would be very easy to do. Would this cause all
kinds of problems?

I feel like I was introduced to computers way too late
in life to learn a complicated genealogy program! I
have a file cabinet full of documents collected over
about 20 years. It seems like it will take another 20
to enter them in TMG!

Thank you very much for all your help!

Carol




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