Here's what I do, which I think is different from most of the responses you have received so far.
The only report I want to produce is what Legacy calls the Register (Descendant) Book/Report. I want that report to read as naturally as possible. People who have other objectives in mind, of course, may not find what I do to their liking. If I know the death date and death place of a person, but I don't know where he was buried, I put the date, location and source in the "Died" record on the "Individual's information panel." Then the book report will say something like "John Smith died on 25 May 1775 in Unity, N.H.[fn]" [fn = footnote number]. If I have only a gravestone transcription, and I have no reason to believe the person anywhere except the place where he was buried, I put the death date in the "Died" record, and the location of the cemetery, town and state in the "Buried" record of the Individual Information Panel. I give a source only for the burial record, and there will be a footnote number at the end of this sentence. Then the book report will say "John Smith died on 25 May 1775 and was buried in East Unity Cemetery, Unity, N.H.[fn]" Here the reader is to infer that the footnote covers both the death date and burial place. The reader must also infer (as I have to) that John Smith died in Unity, N.H. as well as being buried there. Since this is an unsupported inference, I see nothing to be gained by filling in the death location; I assume the reader is at least as good at making inferences as I am. In those rare cases where I have independent information about the death and the burial, and the death date and place are different from the burial date and place, I fill in and source both the died record and the buried record. Then the book report will say something like "John Smith died on 25 May 1775 in Boston, Mass.[fn] and was buried on 28 May 1775 in Easy Unity Cemetery, Unity, N.H.'[fn]" The even rarer cases where a person was buried more than once [e.g., in the 1940s my grandmother disinterred her husband, who had died and was buried in Maryland in 1910 and had him reburied in Kalamazoo, Mich., next to the place where, some years later, she was laid to rest] I will describe using an event. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 5:02 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Addresses - Cemeteries - Naming > I would like to know how others are handling a circumstance that I have > concerning cemeteries with the same names but are located in difference > places. > > I have, at this time, chosen to list the cemetery with the city/county > and state, i.e. "Woodlawn Cemetery (Ashland, VA)". Otherwise, I will not > be able to tell which cemetery is with in what state and city. > > Any other suggestions on how to solve this delimina? If this is > considered to be off topic, then please correspond privately. > > Dick Davis > Alexandria, VA - USA > > > > > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
