Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Yes, I have done the same for NSW births - I can't recall if they were DOB before 1900 or after. Regards, Ian Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Graham Lambert Sent: Friday, 29

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Hi Graham, Yes - have done this on a number of my own family but most of the NSW and Vic BDMs I have were researched and collected over the last 30 to 40 years - that wasn't an option back then! :-( Regards ... Susie Z September 29, 2017 12:11 PM, "Graham Lambert"

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Do you know that for most NSW BDM's, you can now zero in on the precise date by trial and error by testing with half years, then months, then days etc. Graham On 29/09/2017 8:28 AM, Susie Zada wrote: Hi Folks, As many of my BDM references are in New South Wales or Victoria in Australia,

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Calculating birth date from death records doesn't get correct results though. The age given at death might not mean you get the year of birth correct. It may be off by a year or on occasions several years. Some church records may be that accurat, but definetely not all. Anne From:

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Hi Folks, As many of my BDM references are in New South Wales or Victoria in Australia, unless I have purchased the certificate or have other reliable references I am restricted to the indexes. For those states, only a year of registration is given. Unless you are able to interpret the

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

I suppose I could call those calculated dates but since I only use a year in those kind of calculations I prefer about 1834 instead of Calc 1834. I reserve Calc for dates when I can figure out the day month and year. Brian Kelly On 28-Sep-17 3:38 PM, JV Leavitt wrote: Brian, are you not

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Brian, are you not basing the date on a calculation? Why not use the term Calculated instead? If I see the term About, I don't automatically think it is meant to mean plus or minus a year or two. My experience tells me that yes, I know it can very often mean plus or minus a year or two, or--

Re: [LegacyUG] Dates when not really known

On 28-Sep-17 06:50 PM, Brian Kelly wrote: Because there is no setting for that prefix but the programmers have hardwired code in the program to allow it then decided themselves how it would be used in reports and displayed on screens. But there ARE settings for various other prefixes but that

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Personally I've never used Est, I prefer Abt. But whatever we use, it shouldn't be changed to Cir without our knowledge. Recently some of my dates (but not all) are being changed to Cir. And someone told me, it must be because I originally used it. If so, it must be 15 years and several programs

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Goes to show it is anybodys guess. We obviously use it differently. For me I use about when I have a pretty good idea of when they were born from age at death. age in a census or age at marriage, whereas Estimate I use when I am making a guess on the year. Like I know that a couple have

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Estimate and about are synonym as far as I'm concerned. I always try to go back to the source since that's what it's based on. On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Brian Kelly [Masked] < > wrote: > > > > > Like Anne I use "about" when I know the date within a year or two. > > This can be a birth

Re: [LegacyUG] Dates when not really known

Because there is no setting for that prefix but the programmers have hardwired code in the program to allow it then decided themselves how it would be used in reports and displayed on screens. Brian Kelly On 28-Sep-17 1:23 PM, Martha Graham wrote: Hello, I noticed the discussion of using the

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Like Anne I use "about" when I know the date within a year or two. This can be a birth year based on the age stated on a census, birth year based on declared age on a marriage record or any other dated document which includes a declared age. When multiple documents give different dates I use

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

I think it is defined differently for each one of us, and that's okay as long as we are consistent and we let our "audience it's accurate, but not exact.  I use estimate when it is a wild guess just to get me in the right area then it becomes to me +/- 25 years. Elmer On 9/28/2017 10:37 AM,

[LegacyUG] Dates when not really known

Hello, I noticed the discussion of using the various words for a date that is not really known. Michelle said that Est could be used. Well I tried it and after typing 'Est' and hitting the enter key, 'est' was the result. Why? I have all settings I can find set to 'do not change what I

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Est will work even though it isn't listed. Michele Simmons Lewis, CG Legacy Family Tree mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com Certified Genealogist is a registered trademark and the designation CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of GenealogistsR, used under

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

On 28-Sep-17 03:37 PM, JV Leavitt wrote: I'm very disappointed that the term Estimated or Est is not included in Legacy's Date Prefix options. I thought there would be a workaround for this, in that for Options 5.7 in the box for "Displayed" next to "Circa, Cir or C" one could type "Est" and

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

I don't know what others consider about as, but use it when I for example see an age given in a census. In the 1801 census I use for Norway age is often given and if it say someone is x years old, it migt often mean they were born x+1 or x-1 year so I use about. Also if I in the marriage record

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

Does anyone know what the term "About" means when used with a date? Everyone seems to have a different idea about the level of credibility to give it. Many think it must be within a few years, and don't think of it as being a wild guess (which so often turns out to be the case), but I'm not