While I see your problem, largely because I have it in reverse, I don't see a need to change anything in Legacy or Ancestry or whatever.
It's a "bad date" because non-British researchers interpret Jan-Feb-March 1876 differently than British researchers. Americans who don't do British research read that as: "researcher has 3 sources, one gives the birth in Jan, one says Feb, and the third says March." Endless opp for disaster there. Alternately, it could be interpreted as sloppiness on the part of the researcher for not determining /which/ it is. Cheryl Bob Austen wrote: > Legacy does a marvelous job of ‘cleaning up’ date entries. > However, an English (?) Quarter date must be entered [month] > Q [year]. > > Legacy says that Jan-Mar 1876 is a date range (I agree) but > also suggests that Jan-Feb-Mar 1876 is a date range, where > others (Ancestry for one) accept this format as a ‘Quarter’ > date (Legacy’s Mar Q 1876). You can’t enter Jan-Feb-Mar 1876 > as a date in Legacy as it will simply be deleted without > warning – that part is due to be corrected but it will be > treated as a ‘bad date’. Why is it a ‘bad date’? > > Ancestry have recently started using yet another format > ‘1876 – Jan-Feb-Mar’ which, of course, is also a valid way > to show an English quarter date and as such should be > allowed as a ‘good date’ by Legacy but is currently being > trapped incorrectly as a ‘bad date’. > > I do a lot of copy/paste from Ancestry and always have to > change their quarter date to suit Legacy’s criteria for > input. I was looking for an enhancement to convert the entry > of Jan-Feb-Mar 1876 to Mar Q 1876. This would be a simple > programming change. Instead, they have chosen to change the > programming to make it a ‘bad date’ rather than make it a > ‘good date’. > > The response from Brian/Support is: > > “The use of quarter dates in Legacy has existed since > sometime in 1996 when Legacy 6.0 was in effect. Use the help > file to look up quarter dates to see how they should be > entered.” > > From Legacy Help… > > The quarters are Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep, and Oct-Dec. > Legacy will accept a date based on these quarters that are > entered in the following format: > > [month] Q [year] - For [month] substitute the ending month > for one of the calendar quarters. For year substitute the > year of the Index. > > Why must legacy be so restrictive when entering English > quarter dates? > > Am I alone in this idea for an enhancement? If there is > anyone else on the LUG that would think this to be an > improvement I hope you would chime in… perhaps we can get > Legacy to make a minor change to an already great program. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
