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From: "Donald W. Range" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] "disproved" citations?
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:51:01 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20060704134639.2990.qmail@web53115.mail.yahoo.com>


Alison,

I would record the census information in a census tag and include a summary
of the content of the census entry in the census tag memo, giving the page
number of the census entry in the citation detail. An immigration tag would
record the date and place as what I believe are most accurate immigration
facts. The immigration tag would cite the sources which supply the accurate
information and also cite the census as a source noting in its citation
detail its conflicting immigration data that is believed to be incorrect. I
normally do not include census tags in narrative reports. I do include
immigration tags, so this method would only show the conflicting data in the
source citation in a footnote or endnote. In rare cases where I might feel
it is important to discuss the conflicting data in the body of the narrative
report I would create two immigration tags, each citing its supporting
sources, and discuss the conflict in one of the tag memos. A variation
would be to have just one immigration tag and make mention of the conflict
in the tag memo. For conflicting birth and death information I usually use
a custom Alt-Birth or Alt-Death tag to record the less likely data, as
discussed on Terry Reigel's website
http://tmg.reigelridge.com/Tags-Conflicts.htm but I don't ususlly include
the Alt tags in narrative reports.

I haven't yet printed a REALLY BIG narrative report, but when I do if I find
I have hundreds of pages of source citations I will have to tighten up and
suppress printing of the conflicting sources.

Don Range

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alison Schubert [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 5:47 AM
> To:
> Subject: [TMG] "disproved" citations?
>
> As I've been entering census records I've recorded a few
> facts, such as immigration, in separate tags to make for easy
> research reminders. Now I've started to get some more
> adequate documentation so I'm fairly confident these
> different dates are just part of the census being close, but
> not quite right. What I don't know is should I suppress
> these old immigration tags and leave them, along with there
> sources, move the sources to what I'm convinced is the most
> accurate date I'm likely to find and mark the moved citations
> as disproven (and maybe even exclude them), or just delete
> these citations and tag?
>
> I'm relatively new to both TMG and well documented genealogy
> so I'm curious if there is a standard practice, or even just
> to see what method others use.
>
> Alison


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