On 11/08/2011 12:53, Ron Ferguson wrote: > I have often wondered this myself, and am unsure whether it is better to > identify the error as being in the mother's death date or (usually) the > child's birth date. The only advantage that I have been able to see is that > if one has mistyped the death date by say, 10 or 100 years then it can > affect all the kids in that family, and a hint that it may be the mother's > date can help finding the problem.
That wasn't the case with me. I think on both occasions it was because I had the death dates as something like "December Q 1873 or 1874" which is pefectly acceptable to me, but Legacy didn't like it. But from what you say, I am no guessing that if the mother has no death date Legacy doesn't bother about when the children were born, but *anything* in the death date field that isn't a valid date prior to the eldest child's birth is treated as "a death too late." Even so, it would be better to report "death possibly before child's birth" next to the mother's name, rather than "problem with mother's death date" next to the child's name. -- Jenny M Benson 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
