Hi Folks, As many of my BDM references are in New South Wales or Victoria in Australia, unless I have purchased the certificate or have other reliable references I am restricted to the indexes. For those states, only a year of registration is given. Unless you are able to interpret the registration numbers with absolute certainty it is possible that the person was born in the year before registration (i.e. late December).
ABOUT / Abt For those situations from the BDM indexes, I use About / Abt because it is confirmed and generally within one year of the registration. (a bit like the English quarters - registered at the beginning of a quarter but born the previous quarter which could be the previous year for the first quarter). CALCULATED / Calc For years of birth based on age at marriage, death or age on other siblings' birth certificates, or other reliable sources, I use calculations and as we all know they can vary greatly. e.g. if it's an age on emigration / passenger lists, the person / family may have applied one or more years before the event. ESTIMATED / Est Where there are NO reference years I will do an estimate based on 25 +/- years and take into account the birth of the siblings - e.g. is this the first child, seventh child etc. Based on this I would ESTIMATE that the parents were born 25 +/- years before the birth of the first child to give at least one reference point. PUBLISHING When I have 'published' a printed family history for family members (updated every couple of years) I include my decision of using Abt / Calc / Est in the introduction to make it clear to all. I'm now looking at including that somewhere on my family trees on the web. WARNING If you have an Est date - i.e. Born: Est 1828 - if anyone copies your data and puts it on Ancestry, that conglomerate gets VERY 'Helpful' by hinting that the person in question was born in ESTONIA! And before you know it, your direct gg-grandfather came from Estonia ... grrrrrrrrrrr Regards ... Susie Z -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Kelly Sent: Friday, 29 September 2017 7:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update I suppose I could call those calculated dates but since I only use a year in those kind of calculations I prefer about 1834 instead of Calc 1834. I reserve Calc for dates when I can figure out the day month and year. Brian Kelly -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [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]/
