Yes, I have done the same for NSW births - I can't recall if they were DOB before 1900 or after.
Regards, Ian Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Graham Lambert Sent: Friday, 29 September 2017 12:12 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>; Susie Zada <sz...@zades.com.au> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update Do you know that for most NSW BDM's, you can now zero in on the precise date by trial and error by testing with half years, then months, then days etc. Graham On 29/09/2017 8:28 AM, Susie Zada wrote: > 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:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] > On Behalf Of Brian Kelly > Sent: Friday, 29 September 2017 7:13 AM > To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com > 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 LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
