Hi Sandra,
I wouldn't enter non-standard dates.
I use Cal[culated] dates - and source the date with the data used for the
calculation - eg census when I've calculated the birth date from the age
given at census.
I can see on Family View immediately from the cal 1850 - that I still need
to find the birth registration for that child. When I have the birth
registration I change it to the actual year of registration.
For most people I don't look for greater accuracy than that so I only put
the quarter of registration in the source. At most I add Abt for 1st
quarter registrations as the birth may have occurred late the year before.
For direct line ancestors, I add a To-Do to get the birth certificate when
I can afford it or look for the baptism.
Cathy
At 22:54 27/05/2005, you wrote:
Hi Ron
I do not always enter a birth date but because of you I MAY start. I
have discovered that when I calculate a date from provided data such as died
8 may 1748 age 79 y 3m 2d I can enter b. cal [calculated] 6 Feb 1668 and
nothing bad happens to the date as far as I can see so I am thinking that
when and if "I" add a date I might enter me 1887 me standing for myself or
SD 1887 SD being my initials letting me know that the date was entirely my
idea and in notes I may explain how "I" came to pick that date. I have not
tried any reports using this technique so I have no idea how or if it will
work out yet.
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