I suspect you have double dating activated. It is desireable to some of us, not quite so much on others. (I use double dating.) Quoting from Legacy Help:
[Direct copy from Legacy Help, Copyright Millennia] Legacy supports the practice of double dating to handle the time period between the changeover from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. To turn this feature on, click Customize on the Options menu, and then click the Dates tab. With this feature selected, entering a date that falls between January 1, 1583 and March 24, 1752 (or any cutoff date you specify) displays it as a double date. You can specifically enter the double date, such as Feb. 16, 1723/24 or Feb 16 1723/1724, in which case Legacy displays it as Feb 16, 1723/24. If you don't include the second year, Legacy accepts the year you entered as the second year. Jan 16, 1652 becomes Jan 16, 1651/52. [End Copy from Help] Does this help? Happy New Year, Robert At 2010-01-01 06:18 PM, you wrote: >The strangest thing is happening to me. I have a birth date that >appears as 30 Jan 1745/46. I want to make it 30 Jan 1746 but the >program will not accept it. > >I have typed over it (reverts to 30 Jan 1745/46), deleted the entire >date (it deleted OK), returned and made it just Jan 1746 (reverts to >Jan 1745/46), made it just 1746 (OK), then added Jan in front of >1746 (reverts to Jan 1745/46), Put the year first (reverts to 30 Jan >1745/46)...lots of other things to goose the date but if I even put >1740 in, it makes it 30 Jan 1739/40 instead. All this happens when I >click "Save" from the Individual's information screen. > >Backed up and closed Legacy, restarted the program and the same >things happen. What in the world is wrong?? > >Another thing...this person came to my Legacy file from a GEDCOM >from a freeware program over a year ago. It's my 4th GGrandfather so >I can't just ignore it. The date was 30 Jan 1746 on the other >database, so I never typed it in that way, originally! I ran a >Potential Problems report just now and the date doesn't come up in error. > >Marilyn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
