When you have a file like mine with over 200 people with the same name (Nicholas Arens), born between 1500 and 2009, I need a method to roughly sort them into approximate decades and centuries..
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk>wrote: > Robert Arens wrote > >> I approximate 30 years per generation, marriage at about 25, first child >> one year after marriage, a child every two years, the wife is 2 years >> younger than the husband. In some large family groups I've been off by as >> much as 40 years. >> > > Which is why I don't like estimating unless I have a fairly good idea to > within a year or two of when the event happened. Leaving a birthdate blank > means "I don't know when this person was born", putting in "abt 1820" means > something like "the 1851 Census showed an age of 30 so this person was > probably born between April 1820 and March 1821." > > If I thought someone was born in 1820 and they were really born in 1780 it > could seriously skew my research! > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp> > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > > -- Bob Arens Vice President & Chief Financial Officer EagleVisions Energy LLC www.eaglevisionsenergy.com 1-952-430-7000
