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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Burial sentences
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:48:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <447F7A9C.6090107@gmail.com>


Linda has given you the best advise on how to handle the situation as you
want. You asked how other's handle and here's my method. Each person gets
a burial tag, with them as primary, their dates, etc. Then in each person's
REFERENCE field, I put in the location of them in respect to their burial.

For the Nance cemetery, each person is NAN001, NAN002, NAN03, etc. Then when
I want to do a report, I print it in REFERENCE FIELD order, and I get the
cemetery basically as it is plotted out.

Teresa Ghee Elliott-IBSSG
TMG sentences
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG/TMG.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim McCarthy [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:39 PM
To:
Subject: [TMG] Burial sentences

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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