Hi Cathy
Thank you, I can see that I need to give this a lot of thought before I
start changing things in my data a but because of you and the others like
you I am able to give it some serious thought, I also have a male military
cousin who uses CY 2005 which I take to be Circa Year 2005
Takes all kinds
Thank you everyone
Love, Light, Rainbows & Blessings
Sandra Tyler Duncan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] learning from mistakes
> 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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