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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] New User Needs Help with Tags for Probate and Censuses
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:54:36 -0500
In-Reply-To: <2005612111124.422218@Terry3>


Terry,
I disagree with one point, see below.<G>

Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then add

Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above

TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html

Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm


-----Original Message-----
<<<From: Terry Reigel [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [TMG] New User Needs Help with Tags for Probate and Censuses

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:33:37 -0700 (PDT), Carol Lucian wrote:
It would be possible to create a tag for each document you find. Being
able to read all the data from the person view without opening the
tags is more difficult - it would help if you set the view to more
than one line per tag, and even more if you turned on "item tips,"
which display the entire contents of the tag when you hold your mouse
cursor over it.

But this is not really the way TMG was intended to be used, nor the
way most users would approach the task. Doing so really makes each tag
about a source document. Most users regard a tag as being to record an
event - something that happened to the person. The documents are then
recorded as sources, and cited for each event for which they provide
information.>>>>


I believe that a tag is simply an event. In the probate process are many
events. Especially if a person dies intestate, spanning a large period of
time. During that process, other events can happen in the lives of the
people who are left alive.
Take for example:

A man dies leaving his estate to his three sons. While it's in the probate
process, Son2 dies. Then his portion of the estate must then be divided.
But how? Does his portion of his father's estate go equally to his
children, or does it get divided per Son2's will? And what about the child
Son2's wife gave birth to 3 weeks after grandpa died? Does he get a portion
as a grandchild, or since he was born after the death, does he get nothing?

Actually by breaking the probate process up into individual tags, you can
see more of the data by using item tips. You can also see how those other
life events fit into a person's being involved in a probate process. Using
witnesses and individual tags, helps to put it into perspective to me. Does
make for a busy PV, but it was a busy life. <G>

Now having said that, I agree the PROBATE FILE itself, is one source. I
have seen all kinds of things in probate files. In areas where they still
have the original packets, you might even find marriage licenses for the
children (especially girls) of the deceased. My favorite record is still
the Affidavit of Descent. Gotta love a document that legally proves the
descendants of a person. <G>
I might add, if this is what you meant, sorry, reading in a hurry this
morning. <G>



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