Kathy, If I have nothing but a marriage record I assume the groom was abt 21 and the bride was about 18. If I have nothing but the date of birth of the children, I find the oldest know child and calculate the marriage date 1 year before that and then their ages using the 21/18 rule. If you have a marriage or a baptism, you have at least one location on their timeline for the Research Guidance to work with. When I put in a test person with one date and England as a location I got the specific databases you listed.
Michele Technical Support <mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> mich...@legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com From: Kathy Thompson [mailto:kmthoms...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 10:04 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Research guidance - Goal with no suggestions Not the point though Michelle - I personally have some ideas, but Legacy is giving me no suggestions on where to look I do have a number of "Alt. Death" events for people who I am uncertain of when they died - even those don't help Legacy to give me hints like the regular normal ones of"Cemeteries, World-wide" or "England Probate Records" or "England/Wales Parish Register - Burials" etc It doesnt even have these as suggested soources for this person No, I didn't find the names from Obituaries, if I had, I'd have a death date or at least year for them I have the names from the baptisms of their children or their own marriage document, or from census records. No I can't always use the census records because some of these people died after the last available census for the area (ie 1911 in England) Yes, some did die between census records, and for those I don't need the hints because I have a very defined time frame. 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
