Brian, are you not basing the date on a calculation? Why not use the
term Calculated instead? If I see the term About, I don't automatically
think it is meant to mean plus or minus a year or two. My experience
tells me that yes, I know it can very often mean plus or minus a year or
two, or-- it could be a wild guess, based on little or no evidence -- we
don't have any way to know what others intend or interpret it to mean.
This frustrating ambiguity could be avoided by using a term that has a
more specific meaning.
If the sources give too wide a difference in the age, then I also enter
one or more of them into alternate dates, but they are still calculated
dates. Thank you for pointed out that a death record that gives birth
information in terms of years, months, and days, is still a calculated
date. It should never be taken as better than that, because as we all
know, a birth record is almost always a better source for birth
information than what we see on death records.
By the way, calculating the birth date from death records is made so
very easy using the Legacy Calendar date calculator! Thank you Legacy!
Anyone not aware of it, and doing genealogical research, is missing
something very helpful and important. Note too, by the way, that when
Legacy's Calendar Calculate feature is used, the resulting date is,
thankfully, shown with a prefix of "Cal", just like it should be. :-)
Joseph Leavitt
On 9/28/2017 10:44 AM, Brian Kelly wrote:
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
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