Does anyone know what the term "About" means when used with a date?
Everyone seems to have a different idea about the level of credibility
to give it. Many think it must be within a few years, and don't think
of it as being a wild guess (which so often turns out to be the case),
but I'm not alone in thinking of it as a wild guess, which means it
might be 10 to 50 years off. I never use the term About for a date, but
would rather use the term Estimated or Est. Better than that, of
course, when only an age is given in a source, is to use the term
Calculated, or cal. Calculated as a term for a date can properly be
seen as having much more credibility than the term Estimated.
Unfortunately, the term Estimated is sometimes being used for a date
when it was derived from a calculation based on age. I sincerely wish
they wouldn't do that.
I'm very disappointed that the term Estimated or Est is not included in
Legacy's Date Prefix options.
Joseph Leavitt
On 7/7/2017 1:00 PM, Lucy Abbott wrote:
OK, had not thought of setting up the Gedcom from Ancestry, changing
all the Est to Abt, doing the same with my existing Legacy file before
doing the merge. Not exactly what I want but it would work and save time.
Never done a search and replace but going to make a duplicate file and
try this on existing Legacy file.
Your comments on making my Gedcom a Text file have me confused. I
normally just ask Ancestry to make a Gedcom, did not know I should
make some adjustment to it or that I could even do something
different. Feel free to email me directly with some help on this if
you would.
Thx for the solution for the changing of the files, really appreciate.
Lucy Abbott
Mill Creek, WA, USA
On Monday, July 3, 2017 4:28 PM, "J.M. "Jay" Ingalls"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Lucy Abbott,
Remember to save the file as PLAIN text with the ".ged" file extension,
or it will include "garbage" you do not want from what I have been told
in the past.
Jay Ingalls
On 7/3/2017 3:51 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
> On 03-Jul-17 07:59 PM, Lucy Abbott wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> If it turns out that you DO have to change "est" to something else, it
> needn't take hours. If you open your Gedcom as a Legacy file you
> could use the Search & Replace function to change all the instances of
> "est" in each Date field. Granted, not a single-step option, but
> wouldn't take too long. In fact, a Gedcom being text file I think you
> could probably do the Search & Replace in the Gedcom with WP program.)
>
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