Gayle,
Good to know Reunion has a Baptism event. For programs that allows people
to "create" their own event, people need to be careful. When a Gedcom is
created, some of those created events aren't Gedcom compliant and create
havoc when imported. My genealogy program has no event for dispensation
Cheri,
Reunion has a baptism event but also allows you to create a custom event which
you can name yourself.
Gayle
> On Mar 8, 2019, at 9:41 PM, Cheri Mello wrote:
>
> Legacy (v. 9) has a Christening event/tag. RootsMagic has a Baptism
> event/tag/fact. I don't know what Family Tree Maker h
Hi Walter,
When starting out, I was guided to using the Bef/Aft/Abt system to have the
most concrete info/reference in the Birth/Marriage/Death date blocks.
Born: *Place line/block*
Bef 25 Mar 1678 put baptismal location
Abt 1678
, Acores
From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Cheri Mello
Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2019 12:41 AM
To: Azores Genealogy
Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Birth information
Legacy (v. 9) has a Christening event/tag. RootsMagic has a Baptism
event/tag
Legacy (v. 9) has a Christening event/tag. RootsMagic has a Baptism
event/tag/fact. I don't know what Family Tree Maker has. Or Reunion. Since
a couple of them have a baptism or christening, I would think that the
others do too. It's a workaround. Or the "about" or "circa" or "before" as
well.
Cher
Yes, the problem is most genealogy programs do not allow users to create a
primary field that is not a 'birthdate'. I use the same about
field/designation you just outlined. Since the 'abt' (about) date is exact,
it makes the reader wonder why the author would use an exact date and still
use th
Hi Walt,
My genealogy program has a Baptism tag (some program calls them events). So
I enter the baptism date into the baptism field and leave it at that. The
first time period doesn't record the birth dates. Cheri
Cheri Mello
Listowner, Azores-Gen
Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Pont
I usually put Bef mar 25, 1678. Then at know to look before that date.
> On Mar 8, 2019, at 5:50 PM, Walter Teixeira wrote:
>
> Cheri,
>
> I know you must have this information at the tip of your tongue and it would
> take me a lot longer to try and find it in one of your helping aids. Dur
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