To each our own.
I have been using the Unknown date convention for 15+ years with several genealogy programs and never had a problem and, since doing it, I have never had a 400 year old person listed as Private or Living... AND, from my web sites have had lots of folks write me to fill in the details where I did not have it.
john.
At 05:35 PM 12/19/2013, Sherry/Support wrote:
Good point Ron. Adding an "unknown" in any field keeps you from getting the benefit of the search for Missing Information or including underlines for missing information in reports.
In both of these features, Legacy is looking for empty fields and "unknown" means the field isn't empty!
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Ron Ferguson < ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
- If I do not know a date, and have too little information to use recognised prefixes then I leave the field blank.
- I do not recommend using anything other than the recognised dates. To do so is simply storing up problems with other programs, GEDCOM driven websites etc.
- Ron Ferguson
- http://www.fergys.co.uk/
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