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From: "Richard J Otter" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: None Use of Sureties
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:09:17 -0800
In-Reply-To: <LNBBJDGHNGCKGILCJKJPAEFHEFAA.MargaretR@ourchateau.net>


I wanted to mention the main reason I use sureties-
I like to make "educated guesses" about some data, like calculated birth
dates with error values, and birth countries. This helps me group people and
look for relationships.
I make these with surety 0 so that I can exclude them from printed reports
or gedcom output.

Richard Otter

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret R. Fortier [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 3:06 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Re: None Use of Sureties

I am a new TMG user, having gotten it for Christmas and I love it, even if I
don't completely understand all of it.

One of the features that I was very happy to have is sureties. I have
started to use them a bit as I am in the process of verifying my import from
FTM.

I like them because I feel I have a range of confidence in my sources and it
is not necessarily dependent on the source type. Being able to indicate I an
confident about the date but not the place in a record is useful to me as I
would not necessarily infer that from seeing the source.

As with other decisions, I am torn between deciding how to set something up
and standardizing right away or playing with it to explore it and then
deciding how to set it up.

This is a wonderful, helpful list. I have learned more from this list than
from the books (GTMOOTMG and User's Guide). The books are good on the how to
do things but with such a flexible program, I need to figure out why I want
to do it a certain way as well. Thanks!

Margaret

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 12:25 PM
To:
Subject: [TMG] Re: None Use of Sureties


In a message dated 1/25/2004 10:27:34 AM Central Standard Time,
writes:

> A week after I asked those who DO NOT use sureties I have receved 3
> replies of those that do not. So of all the TMG-L subscribers/users,
> only 4 people do not use sureties <BG>.
>
> I don't know how many people subscribe to TMG-L but there are 3524 o the
> Whollygenes yahoo group. Assumeing 1/3 of those on the yahoo group are
> on TMG-L, then the percentage of those who do not use sureties and
> bothered to reply is a miniscule 0.34%.
>
> bob gillis
>




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