Thanks Ron These particular ones I have no birth or death date for, only the notes "died in infancy" or "died at age 18" etc. I had entered that in the died field because I like seeing it there and on family group sheets. I guess it's not wrong just because Legacy does recognize it as a date.......... Thanks again Rita in South Carolina -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ron Ferguson Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 1:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting
Rita, For me, I just deduct the age from the year of death and use about eg. 1888 less 18 gives Abt1870. With respect to died in infancy, personally I would leave the date blank, change the 'living' to 'dead', enter the place of death (if I know it) in the location field, and add a note in the Death Notes to say "Died in infancy". Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ Rita Lynn McKale wrote: >> That is a great tool and I am very pleased to find something else to >> help me keep my data consistent. >> I would like to know where and how others record information without >> dates where only an age is known. Such as; died in infancy or died >> at age 18. >> >> Thanks, >> Rita in South Carolina >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On >> Behalf Of Brian/Support >> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:11 AM >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Formatting >> >> Barrie, >> >> If you have dates entered in a form that Legacy does not recognize >> as a date there is a search that will list all the "bad" dates. >> Go to Search > Find > Miscellaneous searches tab. >> There is a selection there that will search all bad dates. >> >> Brian >> Customer Support >> Millennia Corporation >> br...@legacyfamilytree.com >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com >> >> We are changing the world of genealogy! >> When replying to this message, please include all previous >> correspondence. Thanks. >> >> Barrie Smart wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I made a start error when entering dates in a lot of my family >>> records, so there's a number of formats for the same date. >>> After doing what I should have done in the 1st place (RTBM!) I made >>> selections in the Options>Customise>Dates screen, and am following >>> the conventions I've chosen. >>> >>> My question is: >>> >>> Is there any way I can do a blanket change to the already entered >>> dates so they read as per my customised date setup? I've got quite >>> a number, and if the worst comes to the worst I can manually >>> re-enter them, but it would >> make >>> life easier if there was a way to do it in one step. >>> >>> Any help/comments welcomed. Thanks >>> >>> Barrie 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 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
