Re: [LegacyUG] Children Sort Order (dates or no dates?)
Paula wrote 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. I use cal (calculated) for birthdates arrived at from ages in different records (which seems to be more descriptive) and abt for guesses. I have my tree on GenesReunited which wants a year (exact or estimated) of birth for each individual. If I have conflicting ages I use cal and then a range of years. Charlotte 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Children Sort Order (dates or no dates?)
Might have been me I just reposted my system a moment ago. I use CAL when calculated from an age at a time ABT when an aprox date was listed somewhere else - and EST when I am figuring out an estimated year from other people's info and cultural norms... On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Paula Ryburn paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.netwrote: 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
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 From: Robert Arens bob.aren...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:02:42 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Children Sort Order 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 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
RE: [LegacyUG] Children Sort Order (dates or no dates?)
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
