TMG-L Archives

Archiver > TMG > 2000-09 > 0968963365


From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Tombstones
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:29:25 -0600
References: <F28Ftnmh9zEmr4tQ1QR0000b0a0@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <39C12540.9A6AD6FF@infoave.net>


Richard Brogger wrote:
>I disagree with "St. John's Cemetery" as a source. I have
>never read a cemetery but I have read tombstones in a
>cemetery. If the tombstone is in St. John's Cemetery, that
>is the repository for the tombstone. Since a burial tag
>gives the location of the grave and the tombstone is
>generally there also, the repository is redundant. If the
>source is Tombstone, St. John's Cemetery it is very
>redundant.

Yes, the source is the tombstone itself while "St. John's Cemetery" is more
the location or repository of the gravestone. The idea of the Source being
"St. John's Cemetery" is that the Source is a generic one and the data on
the the various tombstones would be entered in the Citation Detail as
appropriate.


----------
Lee Hoffman/KY
E-mail:
TMG Tips Website: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
Personal Website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
-----------
A user of the best genealogy program -- The Master Genealogist (TMG)

This thread: