Goes to show it is anybodys guess. We obviously use it differently.
For me I use about when I have a pretty good idea of when they were born from age at death. age in a census or age at marriage, whereas Estimate I use when I am making a guess on the year. Like I know that a couple have 5 children born between 1725 and 1735, I make a guess at when they were born and that could vary greatly with many years. They could hvae been born 1700, but they could also have been born in 1680 and 1690. Then I make an estimated year to have a year when I am looking for someone in my index. If I am looking for someone probably born in the 18xx, I don't need to look at these who most likley were born in the end of 1600. Anne From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update Estimate and about are synonym as far as I'm concerned. I always try to go back to the source since that's what it's based on. On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Brian Kelly [Masked] < <mailto:%20target=> > wrote: <mailto:%20target=> Like Anne I use "about" when I know the date within a year or two. This can be a birth year based on the age stated on a census, birth year based on declared age on a marriage record or any other dated document which includes a declared age. When multiple documents give different dates I use the Alt. Birth event to record each one and attach the source document on which that date is based. When I have data that allows me to calculate a specific date (age in years months and days along with date of death from a gravestone for example I use Calc. to indicate that the date is based on a calculation. Brian Kelly On 28-Sep-17 11:09 AM, Anne Hildrum wrote: I don't know what others consider about as, but <mailto:%20target=> use it when I for example see an age given in a census. In the 1801 census I use for Norway age is often given and if it say someone is x years old, it migt often mean they were born x+1 or x-1 year so I use about. Also if I in the marriage record find the age of bride and groom, the groom I have the birthdate for, and it fits with the age at marriage and the wife is x years older or younger than the grrom, but I have no ideas of when she was born, except for example that she is 3 years younger than the grom, I would use about for her age. Anne -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of JV Leavitt Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 4:38 PM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update 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] <mailto:[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.) -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.co m Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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