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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] New User Needs Help with Tags for Probate and Censuses
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:36:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: <000101c57017$0dd0e5c0$6402a8c0@Moms17>


On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:54:36 -0500, Teresa Elliott wrote:
> Terry,
> I disagree with one point, see below.<G>

Teresa,

I don't think we disagree at all. My main point is that I'd not create
a Tag per document, but treat Probate as an event which might have
several documents as sources. While I most often I use only one tag to
record the process, I provided the example of using a separate tag for
sale of land. In a few cases where there is lots of interesting
information in the file I've created several tags of various types,
especially when various members of the family were involved in
particular aspects and I want to enter them as witnesses to create
accounts of their parts.

Terry


> <<<From: Terry Reigel Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:11 AM

> 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:


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