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From: "Chris" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Widowed Tag--Request for Version 8 Roles
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:05:03 -0000
In-Reply-To: <029D9681C28C48479BA86EDA65F4BC7F@CharlieXX>


I live and learn. Many thanks Jim - Chris

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Sent: 05 March 2009 15:50
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Subject: Re: [TMG] Widowed Tag--Request for Version 8 Roles


Chris wrote:

>>Why not just make the surviving spouse a Witness to the death of the
>>other.
>
> But what if the surviving spouse wasn't a witness? I only use this if the
> death certificate shows that they were a witness - otherwise I've no proof
> they were.

You are misinterpreting the use of the Witness function in tags. A witness
in a tag doesn't need to be a 'witness' in the legal sense. A witness is
simply any person associated with the event in question. A surviving spouse
is surely associated with the death of his/her spouse. Adding the surviving
spouse to the Death tag is a simple mechanism to create a sentence for that
spouse without the need to resort to an additional and unnecessary, in this
case, custom tag type.

Jim


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