I have taken to putting in an estimated birth date for partners for the people I am connected to as Robert says just to try and make sense of things. I use @185ish, and ish is really generous <G> It alerts me that it isn't a census age, and really tells me I have to get to work on that person <>G
Eliz On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:56 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 > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: 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 To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
