I am a big proponent of such "estimates", for dates and locations. The examples you give are good and I or others could provide innumerable other examples. I find them to be a HUGE value when looking at the screens or reports, when sending or discussing families with people I may be interviewing, and especially when doing searches. With the new mapping in V.7, it adds another dimension. They won't suit everyone, perhaps especially those who do a lot of website work or publishing trees to online repositories. For dates, using "abt", "circa", "est", "bef", "aft" or other qualifiers is easily understood by the reader. Many sources, even well documented, can frequently only get you close, e.g., from a census you may [probably] know that someone was born in a specific year but even that may be a calculation. For Locaions: I am a big user of carats < > around anything I have estimated. Legacy handles them well, although I understand that they may have an impact on some Gedcom usage and online repositories.
Mike Michael J Method family research of: Method, Feehily, Fredrick, Herzog, tenEyck, Belsley In a message dated 6/18/2008 3:32:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Group: Now that I have Legacy7 up and running, I feel a compulsion to do some file cleanup but am in a bit of a quandry. May I have some opinions on whether or not to add estimated locations? I know about various methods for *how* to do it, but just can't decide *whether* to do it. If I know that, for example, ancestors were born before 1620 and lived in Massachusetts, it's a pretty safe bet that they were born in England. By the same token, people who were born and died in what is now Ontario in the early 1800's were probably married there. Is anything gained by showing England or Canada (Upper/Lower, West/East) as *probable* locations or is there a good reason for just leaving it blank? Thoughts please. Kirsten **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) 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
