Hi Pete,
As far as I know Legacy does not support "est". It does however support
"cal" for calculated. A full list of type of dates is given in the help
files - search under "dates" and you will find it.
You can put whatever interpretation you wish on them. Eg. I use "abt" for
+/- 5years and "cir" for 1 to 3 months and "cal" for an educated guess. The
form <1878> is not recommended for own use as this is often used for
calculated dates for imported files.
Ron Ferguson
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: 23 January 2006 21:44
Subject: [LegacyUG] Estimated dates
I've been following the discussion about estimated
dates with some interest, because they appear to solve
an irritation I have been suffering. As a genealogy
and Legacy beginner, I am aware of the "about",
"before" and "after" keywords for date fields, but for
me they have acquired particular meanings ("before"
and "after" being obvious; "about" being "on or around
this date or year", essentially no more than a year
either side e.g. as calculated from a census age). I
am unwilling to use "about" for dates where I have no
idea what the actual year should be, so I leave them
blank. The problem here is that it's quite difficult,
when looking in the name index for example, to work
out which individual is referred to and where they fit
into the tree.
It looks to me as if adding an "Est" date sorts this
out for me, provided I interpret "Est" as being "not a
clue what the actual year was, but might have been
somewhere around this one". Now that's fine, provided
that all these abbreviations have "standard"
interpretations which match mine, and also that Legacy
itself doesn't do anything special with them.
So, if I use these abbreviations (and others, such as
"circa", I suppose) in this way, am I going to get
myself into hot water when I come to share data with
others in the future?
And does Legacy treat these abbreviations the same
(e.g. "about", "est", "circa" etc. are all synonyms as
far as Legacy is concerned) - is it only to do with
output to reports?
Thanks,
Pete Chalmers
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