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From: Jody McKenneyThomson <>
Subject: More on marriage consent entry
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:08:12 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20062119161.962705@Terry3>


Terry:

Thank you for your response. To answer your questions: I think that this
marriage consent shows that she (or he) was not "of age". Since subsequent
census records are NOT consistent with her age, this does help to narrow her
possible birth year. That is important. It also clearly identified her
father. Also very important!! Other sources such as census and tax records
show that he lived for several decades after her marriage - so that is not
important.

I would want the information about her father's consent to appear in the
narrative - not in the footnotes.

The simplest seems to be to put the consent information into the 'memo' of
her marriage tag. I'm still not clear if that is the best place for it.

Thank you again, Jody

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Reigel [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:16 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Marriage consent entry


On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:01:41 -0800, Jody McKenneyThomson wrote:

> I am a TMG-newbie and expect that I'll be having lots of
> questions in the next few weeks and months. But I'd like
> to begin with:

Welcome, Jody, to TMG and TMG-L. We love questions, so ask away! <g>

> I have a marriage consent by a father for his daughter to
> marry. Would I add this as a 'memo' on the tag entry
> screen? Or would I go to Advance Data Entry and add it
> there?

I think the first question is just what about it do you want to enter?
Perhaps:

- Using it as a source, for the marriage; that he was her father;
perhaps for her name, or her age???

- The fact that consent was required? That he gave it? That it
demonstrates he was still living?

Then, how do you want that to appear? As a source, in the footnotes?
As a point of interest, in narratives?

What you want to do with it determines how you would enter it. For
example, I'd first make it a source, and cite it for her marriage tag;
the name tags for her, her husband, and her father; and for the
parent/child relationship tag for the father and daughter.

Then I'd think about whether it was interesting enough to record as an
event. If so, I'd likely enter it in the memo of her marriage tag.

With some better idea of what you want to do with it we can offer more
specific advice.

Terry Reigel

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