Yes, I figured this. However, being an "original" I didn't want to just erase it. Thanks, Carol
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Monty Reed Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] dates Date anomalies often are from a slip of the pen by busy people. The good reverend married my parents on the 31st of September, 1921. It was actually the 21st. Monty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirsten Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 10:02 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] dates > Carol: > > Whether there were or were not dates like this on the calendar, they are > still what you should use since that's what the source says and even if > it's > wrong you shouldn't change it. I don't get an error message when entering > these dates into Legacy. If it's on an error report you can always > override > it. The problem I see is that although the date appears in the > individual's > screen, it doesn't show when you go to other views such as to the child's > family view or the Name List. In spite of this, it looks as though it > will > print in reports. > > In my own file I'd do something like Ron suggested and use just "Feb 1667" > and in the source notes list the full date as it comes from the source > with > [sic] added. > > Kirsten > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > familyjesse > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 4:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] dates > > > Hello, > > I have a piece of information that is from a CD transcription of > Churchbook > records and I am having these dates show up in Legacy as errors. I can go > in > and change the dates but I have this problem… many of these dates are > previous to changes that have occurred in our modern calendar. I’m > wondering > if Legacy takes all of that into account or whether I need to take it into > account? These are the two records: > > 30 Feb 1667 > 29 Feb 1691 > > I know there is no 30 Feb in our calendar, but was there at one time? I > went > on google and typed in “30 “Feb 1667” and came up with several other > genealogical events for that date. One of them had a note that there was > no > such date. However I also found: “Sweden had a February 30 in 1712”. My > event occurred in the Limburg area of Netherlands. > > Even if the date was obviously an error, that is what the original source > had. If I had made an error in writing the date, I would change it. > However, > I went back to the source and the date I wrote is exactly what the source > has for the date. > > Thanks, > Carol Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.33/1037 - Release Date: 9/29/2007 1:32 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.33/1037 - Release Date: 9/29/2007 1:32 PM Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
