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From: "GeneJ \(GM\)" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Marriage License Tag Entry
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:08:48 -0700
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Hi Pauline:

As Donald said, most marriage licenses convert to marriages that can be
proven (if not by the actual marriage record, then by other evidence).

While I don't have marriage license tags in my project, I do have any number
of published marriage intentions. For at least a few of those, an eventual
union can't yet be proven. In one case, it's more than interesting. Over
time, I think I've handled that interesting item about every way it can be
handled.

Remember, you can use one of the marriage group tags, but you can just as
easily create a custom "other event" tag, say, "Marriage OE License." In the
case of my more interesting 1811 marriage intention, the event is best
handled as an "other event."

To enter an item like the 1811 item, create the custom tag, then add the
other party to your project as an unrelated individual. Link both as
principals to the custom other event tag. Attach all your necessary sources
and evidence and/or notes to that other event tag.

Hope this helps. --GJ

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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:23:18 -0500
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Good Evening,
In adding a Mar Lic tag, I'm searching for ideas of how to proceed. It
looks simple! I want to record the ages and places of residence of both
the bride and groom in their individual Tag entry Memo. The Marriage
License tag appears to utilize the witness feature/route. On the bride's
Person View, the groom is not yet in the project, and vice versa--so
that was my reason for the individual Memos on their individual Mar Lic
tag. Maybe I'm just splitting hairs here.

I'd appreciate very much suggestions on the best way to record
this--using John Doe & Mary Hill as participants. It seems the more 'I'
work with it, the more tangled the web becomes. Thanks as always for
your generous help.

Pauline


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Good Afternoon,
Thank you Kerry, very much for your response. I've been working with your
suggestions and it seems to work very well. It appears that the Mar Lic tag
is going to be the same for both which I would expect but I was trying to
make separate Memos, especially for how the names would appear in the
Individual Narratives. But I know there are several ways to do things, so
its a work in progress. Again, thank you!
Pauline
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Kerry Davis wrote:
Pauline,

I'm not sure I understand why you're giving them a separate marriage
license tag and why they're not in the same project -- maybe I've
misunderstood you. But if you're linking them together in the same
project, then keeping it really simple would be to use one Marriage
License tag for the two of them as is: [P] and [PO] obtained a marriage
license <[D]> <[L]> -- and you could add <[M]> to that ([P] and [PO]
obtained a marriage license <[D]> <[L]><. [M]>) and write whatever you
wish into the Memo about their ages and place of residence or anything
else you may wish: "Mary Hill and John Doe obtained a marriage license
27 April 2009 in San Francisco, California. Mary was 24 and living in
Berkeley, Alameda County, California, and John was 25 and living in
Sausalito, Marin County, California" Or you can rewrite the sentence
entirely. I tend to keep things pretty simple most of the time but there
are master tag sentence creators on this list who come up with some
pretty nifty sentences who I'm sure could give you some examples.

Kerry

apn wrote:

>> Good Evening,
>> In adding a Mar Lic tag, I'm searching for ideas of how to proceed. It
>> looks simple! I want to record the ages and places of residence of both
>> the bride and groom in their individual Tag entry Memo. The Marriage
>> License tag appears to utilize the witness feature/route. On the bride's
>> Person View, the groom is not yet in the project, and vice versa--so
>> that was my reason for the individual Memos on their individual Mar Lic
>> tag. Maybe I'm just splitting hairs here.
>>
>> I'd appreciate very much suggestions on the best way to record
>> this--using John Doe & Mary Hill as participants. It seems the more 'I'
>> work with it, the more tangled the web becomes. Thanks as always for
>> your generous help.
>>
>> Pauline
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