Oh dear. I started this thread and am now more confused than ever ?
Cheers from Valerie in sunny Sydney From: Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree....@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 7 January 2014 4:53 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] When to use est and when to use abt Bob, In your Legacy program go to View>Calendar And you will see at the bottom you can input dates and calculate the appropriate result. Jay On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Bob Austen <rgaus...@telus.net> wrote: Thanks Kurt, I didn’t see this before my last email. I can see, from your example, where one could ‘calculate’ the birth date (month, day, year) given that data. However, If the Age at Death only gave ‘years’ then the birth could only be given as the year (about) and thus, not calculated. Seems a very limited usage for the term. Larry Lee, excellent answer, thank you. Thanks List, probably enough press on this subject. Bob From: Kurt Kneeland [mailto:kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Monday, 6 January, 2014 8:02 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] When to use est and when to use abt An example of a Calculated Date is a Birth Date determined from a Date of Death and an Age at Death given in years, months and days. From: Bob Austen [mailto:rgaus...@telus.net] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 8:47 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] When to use est and when to use abt Hi Jay, Help me out here, what is the norm for ‘calculated date’, and when/how do the rest of you use the term? I’ve not seen it used for another particular purpose, so I am interested in knowing how you understand it and what others are expecting to see by that. Would you use ‘Est’ as a guess/fill in date? I also use FTM and the default is to change circa/cir/c/Est/ to Abt. I want to differentiate between that terminology and my guess. I don’t like to leave missing birth dates (in particular) and will most often put in an estimated date or a range (also an estimate/guess) to better sort the individual. Bob From: Jay 1FamilyTree [mailto:1familytree....@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 6 January, 2014 2:39 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] When to use est and when to use abt Bob, You do the rest of us a disservice by using Cal for a date that is not a calculated date. Any data that comes from you will assumed to be a calculated date. However you use the program within your PC................. and is best for you ......is great. But if you are going to stray from the expected or norm, please take into consideration that others will never know you changed the expected data. On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Bob Austen <rgaus...@telus.net> wrote: If a census shows age 21 in 1911 I would use 'c 1890'. (Circa/Cir/c) I use Cal (Calculated) for my best guess. In my file I know that a 'Cal' date was *my* guess and did not come from any other source. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Valerie B Garton [mailto:vbgar...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 5 January, 2014 10:53 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] When to use est and when to use abt I have now confused myself: Age 21 in 1911 census born abt/est 1890 Died age 47 in 1865 born abt/est 1818 Child born 1867 with no marriage for parents - marriage est/abt 1866 - source: marriage date assuming this is the first born child Parents of above child F born est/abt 1841 M born est/abt 1854 - source: birth dates assuming parents aged 26 and 22 at time of possible first born child Any more suggestions please ? Cheers from Valerie in sunny Sydney --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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