” but with a little
more specificity.
Brian in CA
From:John B. Lisle [mailto:leg...@tqsi.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:20 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Words in date fields
Sherry, Ron, et al,
To each our own.
I have been using the Unknown date convention
. Lisle [mailto:leg...@tqsi.com]
*Sent:* Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:20 PM
*To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Words in date fields
Sherry, Ron, et al,
To each our own.
I have been using the Unknown date convention for 15+ years with several
genealogy programs
Look up Dates: Entering
Under the heading Entering Dates it shows:
You can also enter the following words into any date field*: dead,
deceased, child, infant, stillborn* and *young*.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Boyd Miller
Thank you Sherry - I must be going blind!
Boyd
On 20/12/2013 9:21 a.m., Sherry/Support wrote:
Look up Dates: Entering
Under the heading Entering Dates it shows:
You can also enter the following words into any date field*: dead,
deceased, child, infant, stillborn* and *young*.
To be honest, I knew those words were in there somewhere and missed them
the first couple of readings g.
Did you know that when you're in a Help topic, if you press ctrl-F, you can
bring up a Find window to search for a specific word? I searched on
Stillborn.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical
Sherry, Boyd, et al,
You can also use Unknown (or ? or unk) in a date field.
There may be a problem using several of those OTHER words in a date field
in that if you export to 3rd party product, the other product may not
interpret that as a valid date.
I prefer to use Unknown is a death date
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
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, Ron, et al,
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
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Words in date fields
Sherry, Ron, et al,
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
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