For what it's worth, I use "Cal 1820" when a dob is calculated from a record such as a census listing or age at death. Legacy accepts this as well as "Cal 20 Nov 1820" and even a date range such as "Cal 1820-1826" (for when sources differ). I wasn't comfortable with the "Cal" abbreviation in the beginning because in my mind it indicates "calendar" while "Calc" would indicate "calculated," but I'm getting used to it now, and I see that others use it too.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Paula Ryburn Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:51 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Children Sort Order (dates or no dates?) Seems like someone recently posted here (I have a stickie on this!) that they use "abt 1820" when the year has been indicated by a source; e.g., census listing. But they use "est 1820" when they're using some other "algorithm" to come up with the year; e.g., Robert's calculations. Anything with "abt" can help research; anything with "est" is just a help to identify people in the list. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams 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
