Michelle in Support
I believe you are missing Kathy Thompson's point. I think she is asking
LegacyFamilyTree's Research Guidance to have your logic built in. That is
for the program to be intelligent enough to determine that there is a
missing death date for a person and then use the generic rules you describe
to make suggestions as to where to look for the missing information. She
wants to avoid entering guessed data into her known genealogy file. If the
person is born in England, married in England, and has English descendants
then one would expect English vital records to be listed ahead of French,
German, or American sources, if these latter sources are mentioned at all in
the Research Guidance.
Howard Cady
----- Original Message -----
From: Michele/Support
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 8:10 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Research guidance - Goal with no suggestions
Kathy,
If I have nothing but a marriage record I assume the groom was abt 21 and
the bride was about 18. If I have nothing but the date of birth of the
children, I find the oldest know child and calculate the marriage date 1
year before that and then their ages using the 21/18 rule. If you have a
marriage or a baptism, you have at least one location on their timeline for
the Research Guidance to work with. When I put in a test person with one
date and England as a location I got the specific databases you listed.
Michele
Technical Support
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From: Kathy Thompson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 10:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Research guidance - Goal with no suggestions
Not the point though Michelle - I personally have some ideas, but Legacy is
giving me no suggestions on where to look
I do have a number of "Alt. Death" events for people who I am uncertain of
when they died - even those don't help Legacy to give me hints like
the regular normal ones
of"Cemeteries, World-wide" or "England Probate Records" or "England/Wales
Parish Register - Burials" etc
It doesnt even have these as suggested soources for this person
No, I didn't find the names from Obituaries, if I had, I'd have a death date
or at least year for them
I have the names from the baptisms of their children or their own marriage
document, or from census records.
No I can't always use the census records because some of these people died
after the last available census for the area (ie 1911 in England)
Yes, some did die between census records, and for those I don't need the
hints because I have a very defined time frame.
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