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From: "Bill Belcher" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Unknowns
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:26:20 -0400
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I like this idea. Here is what I did -

? = No known Connection
A = Ancestor of WTB3 / AKB
D = Descendant of WTB3 / AKB
B = Other Witness
S = Slave
P = Direct Paternal (AKB/WTB3)
M = Direct Maternal (AKB/WTB3)
C = Collateral / Cousin

My "Unknowns" have been boarders, slaves, and prominent witnesses (like
where I noticed they witnessed an important family legal documents etc.).
My thought is that Ancestor/Descendant and Direct Paternal / Direct Maternal
can be used for highlighting and filtering (I do a Y-DNA project and hope to
one day to MTDNA). My project is family oriented so I anchored those four
flags in relation to myself and my wife.

Do you more experienced folk notice something I am not thinking about?
Against Mr. Hoffman's advice in his book, I am not using a sample project
(shame) and it would be better to go through the first few flag edits now
vs. 3+ years from now.

Thanks,

Bill Belcher


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Lee Hoffman <> wrote:

> wrote:
> >I'm just curious as to what the people on the list do with a bunch of
> >unknown people.
>
> I add them. I have a Custom Flag called <drum
> roll> "UNRELATED" which I use to mark them. Then if I ever need
> to see who I have as unrelated, I can quickly find them. Otherwise,
> they are there and almost never seen. They're never in my way, but
> are there if I need them.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
> TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)
>
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