When considering whether two records might be duplicates of the same individual, it is important that their life spans can logically intersect. It is illogical to try to merge two records where one pertains to a person in the twentieth century and the other with the same name is from the eighteenth century. This happens quite often even when the dates are known for each life span. The "find duplicates" process should never permit two non-intersecting life span individuals to be merged. If that were fixed, then the use of estimated dates would prove very useful for those records where data is missing. Estimates of birth, marriage, and death dates can sometimes be generated from information on associated people. Anyway, it would be good to have the estimated dates for this purpose and then allow for their removal afterward so they are not confused with the "about" or "prob" dates. In the past, certain programs inserted these estimated dates which were used for temple submissions. Some of the estimated dates and places have had the greater than and less than symbols removed by record keepers that thought they were un-necessary. Now those dates and places look like they are actual information instead of estimated. The confusion caused by such removals has most likely prompted the feature to be switched off in the Legacy program.
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