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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] New User Needs Help with Tags for Probate and Censuses
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:57:25 -0400
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Terry Reigel wrote:
>But to address the confusion again between sources and event tags..
>TMG includes, and user often use, tags for census, wills, and probate.
>One could view each of those as documents, and thus conclude that the
>tag is about the document. I think that's a mistake. I think it's
>better to view them as events, which we have documents to
>substantiate. In my view, the reason to create those tags is because
>it tells us something that was going on with the person or family, and
>thus allows us to conveniently describe that to our readers (thus
>revealing my bias toward leaving a readable record - users with other
>objectives may see this differently).

I think a better way of saying it is that the documents contain evidence of
the facts regarding events (using a broad definition) in the life of one or
more individual(s). I don't know that the subtleties here make much
difference but it tends to explain thing more clearly.


Lee Hoffman/KY
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