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From: "Becky Thames-Simmons" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Recording property-land transactions
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 13:24:54 -0600
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20051204140225.02317fd8@mail.bellsouth.net>


Lee, this truly helps a lot. I don't mind creating a custom tag for it -
and I plan to use your suggestions - I just wanted to be sure I wasn't
missing something obvious in TMG.

Thanks much,
Becky

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 1:16 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Recording property-land transactions

Becky Thames-Simmons wrote:
>I'm going through a lot of land records I've accumulated, and I've got some
>deeds and such to record. My issue is this, and I really feel quite dumb
>about it, like I'm really missing something that should be so obvious: In
>TMG, I can find without any problem the Deed-State and Deed-Local level
>Source templates, but what Tag should be used to record the deeds as an
>event in the ancestors' lives? Any help or guidance is much appreciated.

The real answer is wherever you want to record the deeds, patents,
etc. Some just use one of the existing standard Tag Types like NOTE,
EVENT-MISC, ANECDOTE, or some other Tag. Other users create Custom Tag
Types with the appropriate Sentence Structures for the way they want to
record the data from the documents. Some examples of Custom Tag Type are:
Land-Buy
Land-Sell
LandTrans

The Sentence that you use will depend on how you expect the data to
print. You might have the seller as Principal #1 and the Buyer as
Principal #2 and the remaining (if any) buyers/sellers as Witnesses. Or
you might put two of the buyers (or Sellers) as the both Principal #1 and
#2 and the remainder of the parties as Witnesses. Since each land
transaction is possibly unique you will probably need to adjust the
Sentences as needed to get what you want.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)



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