Calculating birth date from death records doesn't get correct results though. The age given at death might not
mean you get the year of birth correct. It may be off by a year or on occasions several years. Some church records may be that accurat, but definetely not all. Anne From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JV Leavitt Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 9:39 PM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update 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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