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Having thought about this some more, I think I was a bit hasty to suggest the three tags should be synonyms. As @JanMurphy has pointed out, all three tags have a slightly different purpose.

My only issue is that it is often hard to say which tag should be used. A good example of an unclear case is Finding records of emigration/immigration from Germany to South Africa?Finding records of emigration/immigration from Germany to South Africa? In an ideal world, perhaps we would duplicate the tags and add and , but there are only room for 5 tags, and other tags about location and date are (in my opinion) more important.

So I would suggest keeping all three tags, but on questions where there is some ambiguity and use of any of the tags would be accurate, to default to , because that tag is the most widely used and understood.

Having thought about this some more, I think I was a bit hasty to suggest the three tags should be synonyms. As @JanMurphy has pointed out, all three tags have a slightly different purpose.

My only issue is that it is often hard to say which tag should be used. A good example of an unclear case is Finding records of emigration/immigration from Germany to South Africa? In an ideal world, perhaps we would duplicate the tags and add and , but there are only room for 5 tags, and other tags about location and date are (in my opinion) more important.

So I would suggest keeping all three tags, but on questions where there is some ambiguity and use of any of the tags would be accurate, to default to , because that tag is the most widely used and understood.

Having thought about this some more, I think I was a bit hasty to suggest the three tags should be synonyms. As @JanMurphy has pointed out, all three tags have a slightly different purpose.

My only issue is that it is often hard to say which tag should be used. A good example of an unclear case is Finding records of emigration/immigration from Germany to South Africa? In an ideal world, perhaps we would duplicate the tags and add and , but there are only room for 5 tags, and other tags about location and date are (in my opinion) more important.

So I would suggest keeping all three tags, but on questions where there is some ambiguity and use of any of the tags would be accurate, to default to , because that tag is the most widely used and understood.

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Having thought about this some more, I think I was a bit hasty to suggest the three tags should be synonyms. As @JanMurphy has pointed out, all three tags have a slightly different purpose.

My only issue is that it is often hard to say which tag should be used. A good example of an unclear case is Finding records of emigration/immigration from Germany to South Africa? In an ideal world, perhaps we would duplicate the tags and add and , but there are only room for 5 tags, and other tags about location and date are (in my opinion) more important.

So I would suggest keeping all three tags, but on questions where there is some ambiguity and use of any of the tags would be accurate, to default to , because that tag is the most widely used and understood.