I put the quarters in the source for the birth. When the 'Q' option came along I took the (perhaps illogical) step to replace the Abt date with the Q date as it seemed a more accurate entry. In hindsight maybe this is wrong. Graham
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave > Naylor > Sent: 13 February 2006 03:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New Q Date Format not sorting > > > On 12 Feb 2006 Gary Griffin wrote: > > > Is anyone else having problems with sorting children by birth order > > when using the new Quarter date format? > > I'm curious why you would use the date of the registration of the > birth as the date of birth. The birth may have been before that > quarter (almost certainly so if registered on the first day of the > quarter) and, as in some instances of early registrations in my tree, > may have even occurred a year earlier. > > I use the quarter dates for the date of the *event* of "Birth > Registration". For the birth date I use "Bef. (the first of the > month of the next quarter)". So for a registration date of 2Q 1930 > I'd show the birthdate as Beef. 1 Jul 1930. > > Cheers, -- Dave N. > -- > David Naylor, Haltom Hills, Ontario, Canada. > --- > > > Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE > research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to > users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at > http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
