For those of us with English and Welsh family history, the Q date format is
great! Not only is it accurate to within a timeframe of a maximum of 4.5
months, as soon as you see the Q date format, you know exactly what the
source is and more importantly you know how reliable that source is.
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Q dates
Patricia,
Q Date is a shorthand for Quarter Dates. In the British BMD Indexes the
entires are reported under the calendar Quarter when the birth marriage or
Death was registered. The Q dates are Mar Q , for all BMD
Pat,
In England, b/m/d dates are reported on a calendar quarterly basis to the
GRO. A Q date is recorded as the [month] Q, [year] where the month is the
last month of the particular calendar quarter. The date is not precise date
of
the event, but the quarter in which the event was
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You know, I don't know what the b stands for -- I assume the m is for
month?, but what about the d?
Thanks.
Pat
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Pat
Jon replied to my posting on this thread as follows:
Dates of b/m/d are reported to the England GRO on a calendar, quarterly
basis. This is not a British Organization but a governmental reporting
procedure. There was an earlier thread on this when I reported a problem
with
Legacy
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Q dates
You know, I don't know what the b stands for -- I assume the m is for
month?, but what about the d?
Thanks.
Pat
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Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Q dates
So in other wods if someone is born 6 May 1900 the Q date would be 06 05
02 1900 ---
or would it be just 05 02 1900?
or would it be 5 2 1900?
Thanks for the explanation, Brian.
Pat
On 21 May 2006 at 18:17, Patricia Hickin wrote:
You know, I don't know what the b stands for -- I assume the m is for
month?, but what about the d?
M is for marriage and D for death.
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On 21 May 2006 at 23:15, ronald ferguson wrote:
Afraid you have it wrong Pat. The British records office uses 4 quarters
Jan-Mar; Apr-Jun; Jul-Sep; and Oct-Dec. The last month of each quarter is used
to identify the quarter thus the Q dates are Mar; Jun; Sep and Dec each
followed by the year.
I guess I'm really out of it, but I don't know what you mean by the term 'Q
dates.' I never saw it before!
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Patricia,
Q Date is a shorthand for Quarter Dates. In the British BMD Indexes the
entires are reported under the calendar Quarter when the birth marriage
or Death was registered. The Q dates are Mar Q , for all BMD entries
in Jan, Feb and Mar, Jun Q for Apr to Jun etc. many Legacy
Patricia wrote:
I guess I'm really out of it, but I don't know what you mean by the term
'Q
dates.' I never saw it before!
No, you're not not out of it.
You just weren't paying attention ! ;-))
Aparently there is a British Organization that for decades kept
(or keeps) some records that are
...Aparently there is a British Organization that for decades kept (or
keeps) some records that are important to genealogists doing genealogy in
Brittain, that are Quarterly Dates...
Dates of b/m/d are reported to the England GRO on a calendar, quarterly
basis. This is not a British
On 20 May 2006 at 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...Aparently there is a British Organization that for decades kept (or
keeps) some records that are important to genealogists doing genealogy in
Brittain, that are Quarterly Dates...
Dates of b/m/d are reported to the England GRO on a
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