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From: "Joanne Skelton" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Simple Role Name Suggestions
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:14:52 -0700
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Lee,
It may depend on personal preference and/or point of view. I found the
newspaper mention quite interesting and would enjoy reading such information
in a family history of my family. Gene did say that he only added the news
articles which were "relevant or added a little life" and to me this
qualifies under both points.
Joanne Skelton

---- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hoffman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Simple Role Name Suggestions


> GeneJunky wrote:
>>I have a tag for news items, which of course I source to the newspaper,
>>location, date, and page. Where it is relevant or adds a little life to
>>the
>>genealogy, I include a transcription of the item in the memo section of
>>that
>>tag; and cite the newspaper article.
>>I then _also_ apply the same source to other relevant tags (Birth,
>>relocation, employment, noteworthy, etc.).
>>In this case, the memo for the news item tag reads:
>>
>>_The Steubenville Herald_||
>>Steubenville, Ohio
>>Wednesday, March 17, 1897; page 5
>>Personal Mention --
>>A bouncing baby boy has arrived at the home of Engineer Walter Sheehan, of
>>the water works.
>>
>>For this particular item, the full citation (source) reads:
>>Walter Sheehan, news item, "Personal Mention," _The Steubenville Herald_,
>>Steubenville, Ohio, Wednesday, March 17, 1897, page 5, images online,
>>_Ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed GJ 30 Mar 2007)<;
>>[CD]>.
>
>
> For this, I would cite this for the Birth Tag information, but there
> is nothing of particular interest in recording this news article to
> warrant entering anything else. I have a couple of newspaper
> clippings of my own birth and there is nothing to warrant anything
> but entering them as Sources cited in the Birth Tag. If the news
> clipping included unusual phrasings, then it might be good to include
> that unusual portion in the Memo field of the Birth Tag.
>
> For example, my 3G-GF left a will leaving his estate to [his
> housekeeper] "and her children for their service to me." He further
> stated that nothing was to go to his children because he had "already
> given them $25,000 each which is enough to keep them if they take
> care of it and too much if they don't." These quotations are all
> that I recorded for the entire will and essentially reduces a full
> page to two lines. The rest of the will is the usual verbiage and
> the only name was the housekeeper's.
>
> The idea is that when we get around to printing reports for others to
> read, we don't want to bore them with the mundane, but bring our
> ancestors back to life with the unusual. So often, our genealogies
> and family histories are boring in the extreme and rarely include
> much to keep a reader's interest. So we need to cut as much of the
> mundane as we can.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
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