Re: The need for record-based software

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:21:52 +0000, Ian Goddard <goddai01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:

> What I have in mind as an ideal would go one step further and be 
> record-based (a record in this sense being a historical record, not a 
> database row).  The reason is that a a single event may be do***ented by

> more than one record whilst a single record could do***ent more than one

> event.
> 
> As a real example of the first a local apothecary do***ents the death of

> a patient, John Goddard, his burial a few days later and a few days 
> later than that the death of the patient's wife, name not stated.  The 
> parish register do***ents the burials giving the wife's name as 
> Elizabeth (off-hand I can't remember whether the register gives the 
> dates of death).
>
	Most TMG users, at least, would enter your "historical" record as a
source (of evidence), and cite that source in each of the relevant
individual event/tags for the people mentioned...
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