Ron, your comments are very interesting (and I love the comment about probablity theory <g>)
Since you're in the UK and probably most of your research is there, your comments on this are most valuable, as are other comments you've made about UK research. Ok - down to my question - where do you enter the Q dates in Legacy? Do you enter them in lieu of the actual BMD as a reference for future research or do you lave the BMD blank and enter the Q date as part of the Source Detail? In my limited UK research, I haven't run across UK dates yet, but I suspect I might one of these days! I'm fortunate to have actual dates from immigration papers, tombstones and church records. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > With respect I am far from confused about Q dates, I have been using the GRO > indexes for far longer than I care to think, and much longer than the Q > dates have existed. Indeed, I remember them being introduced into Legacy. I > did not like them then, and still don’t! > > With regard to the actual date of registration, *which is what a Q Date > allocates to a specific quarter*, your calculation is invalid and in my view > adds nothing to the accuracy of the useless exercise of trying to allocate a > date to a BMD - for example one has 8 weeks to register a DOB, and before > 1875 it was not even compulsory. BTW. I am qualified in probability theory. > At no stage in its compilation does the GRO index include any indication > whatsoever of the actual date of the BMD. Whilst you mother's birth > (December) appeared in the March returns, all this says is that instead of > registering the birth there and then, as could have been done, they waited > until the following year. > > At best, as you originally, and correctly, indicated one can only say that a > BMD probably happened at about the time of registration , but not later than > the last month, and in my view any further attempt to refine the date is > invalid. I am sticking to my previous comment. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
