On 08 Feb 2014 03:19, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > Mike, thankfully I needn't work with any of the GRO quarterly dates. It may > indeed be a bug with the PP algorithm not coping with a "Q" date. But then > again, does not your Jun Q date technically include April 1st as a possible > death date? If the period is set to the default of 30 days after death, then > perhaps the Jun Q date is indeed out of that acceptable range. Just guessing > here. What would happen if you set the acceptable range to 90 days...would > the PP go away? Too bad there isn't a specific setting to change the range as > it applies ONLY to Q dates.
That's what I surmise is happening. A change to the algorithm is needed that that checks that the burial date (precise in this case) is within the potential problem period (30 days) of the start of the quarter (1st Apr) _or_ the end the period (30th Jun). That is, between the 1st Apr and the 30th July. As for the comments concerning entering an approximate death date when the burial date is known... Yes, I could do that, but the GRO quarter dates are already an approximation and as precise as any other approximation, calculation, estimation, guess-timation or thumbsuck. In fact, I would say more precise as at least there is a record to go with it :-) And in answer to the obvious... I have recently added 3 Master Event Types for recording the registrations of birth, marriage and death. In time, I will remove the GRO dates from the Vital Information and add the events. At the same time I will probably add an estimated date in cases where it might be appropriate - e.g neither birth nor baptism dates, only the birth registration quarter. Note to self: I must set up a contrived test case in which both death and burial dates are known. The death should be on 1st September 1752 and the burial on say the 28th September. The PP gap for this comparison should be set to 14 days. I think we can all see what the result will be :-) An erroneous alert! Physically, there are only seven days between the two. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) 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
