I am astonished that you have found (seldom) burials without deaths. The catholic church, (from which most protestant churches came from), historically did not care when a person was born but when they were baptized. You could not be buried in a church cemetery without reference to the baptism. The burial recorded in the church 'guaranteed' that the priest had assured himself Last Rites were concluded before burial. The priest didn't need to care about the time and date of death. just that he/she was going on to the correct place. For my Norwegians, from the 1500's to anywhere in the 1700's, the Lutheran priest, (State Church) only recorded the part he did, the baptism. He would also record births of babies that died at birth, and give the name of the baptiser, so the child would get the good place. I am not sermonizing, I am just calling it how I see things. If you actually delete burials once the death is verified, it is yours to do. I hope you are not doing it to save space on the computer, though, because saving 20-30 bites (guess) per person, of which probably an average person has ABT 4000-8000 bites, the percentage saved per person is negligible. But to each his/her own. Happy hunting Rich in LA CA
> [Original Message] > From: John Bale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 7/6/2003 2:12:16 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Field > > Frank replied to my reply as follows: > > > I have very seldom found burial data without death data. On those few > > occasions that only burial data are available, they are entered into the > > database until verified death data are found. Then and only then is the > > burial fact removed. So far there have been no death/burial data that are > > more than a few days of one another. If and when I find death/burial data > > with a large difference, I will enter both until the correct death data > can > > be verified. > > Frank, it is your database so you can do what you want of course. > And what you describe seems reasonable to me. Not what I do > with my database, but that's my choice isn't it?!?! Here's why. > > I'm just concerned about others who may see my data, after I'm dead, > or folks I share things with. If I've found three different death dates for > somebody and some burial dates, and all this stuff is source then whoever, > (including myself when I come back to that part of my database in a year > or so!) will know that I've researched this pretty well. Thus they will > have all the data there to agree or disagree with my conclusions. And > they can decide whether to agree or not and can decide on the quality of > my research work. Similarly, if I only have one death date and one burial > date, and cite an obituary, a death chert, and a church record, and they > all agree with each other on both dates, then that to me is a very solid > case > that the person actually did die on the stated date. A death date with only > one source isn't as strong to me. Could mean that's all the researcher > found, > could mean the person deleted "superfluous" burial data, could mean the > person had half a dozen sources but only cited his/her "strongest" source. > > One other thing you wrote, which I agree with, is that death data usually > comes with burial data. While that is true, but it is not always the case. > I've seen many cases where only the burial date is known from a source, > usually church records where the priest or other recorder knows the date > the internment was done on, but may not be sure of the actual death date, > and so leaves it blank. I agree it is not the majority of time, but it > happens > often enough to be very far from unusual. > > jar > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > 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 find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
