All I know is that I would type est and the system would change it to Est as
soon as I moved on to the place field. Now it will not do that even though I
have said "do not change what I type". That order only appears to work on the
name fields. When I type "Estimated" completely, it knows enough to change it
to "est" so there is programming there somewhere that recognizes the word
estimated. With my background knowledge it appears I should be able to work
with this and get my Est back.
Sooooo, tried to find any option that would tell it to make the first letter in
a field a capital. Could not find any that would work with the date fields.
Have gone through all the options and marked every field "initial caps" but
none of them work for the date fields.
Give me an option here that I can use. I want to stay with Est because there is
no way that I know of to change all the ones on Ancestry and I had planned on
downloading a Gedcom and merging that file with my Legacy file once I have done
all the research at that site. Without this correction, many more hours will
need to be used on the merge. My merge is scottish names and 60% are duplicate
type names due to naming conventions so hours and hours are needed for the
merge and this has me frustrated thinking of how many more hours will be needed
to change the dates headings.
Please help ...............
Lucy M Abbott Mill Creek, WA, USA
On Sunday, July 2, 2017 3:19 PM, Brian Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting that the help mentions Est and estimated but the date
settings do not have an option for that term.
Brian Kelly
On 02-Jul-17 5:32 PM, Bert van Kootwijk wrote:
>
> From the helpfile ( topic 1077)
>
> *Approximating Dates*
>
> If you have a birth or marriage date for an individual, you can
> approximate many other missing dates. In general you can estimate that
> a man was married when he was 25 and a woman when she was 21. You can
> then estimate that their first child was born one year later and that
> subsequent children were born every two years after that. For example,
> if a couple was married in 1863, you can estimate that the man was born
> in 1838, the woman in 1842, their first child in 1864 and the second
> child in 1866. As another example, if a woman was born in 1800, you can
> estimate that she was married in 1821, her husband was born in 1796 and
> their first child was born in 1822.
>
> When entering an estimated date, use an appropriate prefix, such as:
>
> Estimated or Est
>
> About or Abt
>
> Before or Bef
>
> After or Aft
>
>
> So it looks as Legacy recognize "Est".. No idea why it not works.
>
>
> Bert
>
>
>
> Op 2-7-2017 om 22:56 schreef Brian Kelly:
>> Est has never been one of the date prefixes in Legacy.
>>
>> I went back to Legacy 7.5 and the only prefixes there are: Abt, After,
>> Bef, Between, Cal, Cir and B.C. Those are the same prefixes listed in
>> 9.0.
>>
>> Legacy 9.0 did change the prefixes to lowercase by default. I just
>> changed mine to initial Caps and they appear to hold in Options and
>> displayed correctly on screen. I did not test the reports to see how
>> date prefixes are used there.
>>
>> Brian Kelly
>>
>> On 02-Jul-17 2:41 PM, Lucy Abbott wrote:
>>> I have always used Est rather than Abt. Since I did the latest update
>>> to Legacy 8, it has changed all my Est to est. Looking at date
>>> options, it appears that Estimated is no longer a valid prefix and it
>>> won't capitalize for that reason. This is a lot of people that I
>>> have to change to Abt, which I don't want to do. Plus it means that
>>> all my Ancestry data has to be changed in order for me to have the
>>> files match.
>>>
>>> Why is Est no longer a valid prefix for a date ? Do I have to roll
>>> back to the prior update to be able to use again ? Can I roll back
>>> to the prior update ?
>>>
>>> Lucy M. Abbott
>>> Mill Creek, Washington, USA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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