Re: genealogist job

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Pete,
    Now that sounds like you just enter the names without seeing whether
they are already in the database??? Which would make this example yet
another disconnected line.???
Laurel

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From: Henry1398@aol.com <Henry1398@aol.com>
To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: genealogist job


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>In a message dated 99-02-15 18:40:08 EST, you write:
>
>Laurell,
>
><<    Supposing you were sent this info for the data base
> Ferdinand Sinclair b. 1640
> m. Mary
> son: William Sinclair b. 1680
>     m. Mary
> their son: Joseph b. 1710
>     m. Mary
> their dau. Mary b.c. 1732
>     m. William Smith
>
> What would be your proceedure to enter this? >>
>
>My procedure is to include all persons descended from a Sinclair,
irrespective
>of their  evolving family names.  Thus each of the names in your example
would
>be included, together with any known descendants.  In other words, Mary,
who
>married William Smith, would be shown, and her children would be Smiths.
Hope
>this answers your inquiry.
>
>Pete
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