On 11/03/2013 18:25, lio . wrote:
> For the example where someone is recorded as "Catholic" on many
> different documents, do you create a different Religion/Catholic
> Event each time, or do you just set up one with the date being (for
> example) "03 Aug 1875-10 Dec 1912" and source it with each document
> recording Catholic? This can be the same for someone who lived in the
> same Residence for 60 years. Do you show 150 Events with the same
> address or do you do that same as above?


Strictly speaking you should only enter a "from - to" date range when
you know the Event/Fact covered the whole of that range.  Just because I
see you in red shoes on Monday and in red shoes on Saturday, it doesn't
mean you wore them all week!

Yes, it's probably quite unlikely that someone switched their religion
back and forth several times.  It's rather less unlikely that they might
have lived at one address for a period of years, moved away and later
gone back to that address.

I think in the case of Religion I would have one Event/Fact and cite all
the Sources but I would not actually use the Date field.  In the case of
Residence, I would probably use separate Events/Facts, one for each
known date to record the facts, but if I was writing a book or creating
a narrative report I would edit the Legacy output to say something like
"he probably lived at ... from X to Y as he was known to be there on
several different dates within that period."
--
Jenny M Benson



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