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From: Jim McCarthy <>
Subject: [TMG] Burial sentences
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:39:08 -0400


I have cemetery burial records that list the lot owner and those people
that are buried in the lot. Since those people are somehow related to
each other (usually) I would like to group them as "witnesses" to the
owner of the lot. I would add the burial tag to the owner of the lot
and then add other people as witnesses. This way I can see who's buried
along with whom. The problem I'm running into is that the witnesses are
shown with the burial tag with the date the owner was buried and not the
date the witness was buried. I would like to see the witnesses burial
date. I also don't want to add another burial tag for the witness so
that the date show correctly. Is there a way that I can have each
witness show with a different burial date? How do other people handle
cemetery records.

At first I was listing the "witnesses" in the memo field of the lot
owner, but then I couldn't see the relationship amongst the witnesses.
I don't want to duplicate the memo field for each witness.

I use the witness for other tags like census, wills and obituaries and
they work great since there is only one date. I would like to do the
same for burials.

Thanks in advance,
Jim

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