Rob, I use the date of the event as my benchmark. It just gets too complicated and confusing if you are using registration dates. Is it possible that someone changed occupations in that 9 day span? Sure, anything is possible but it is unlikely. Here is another scenario…
Death certificates. The informant most likely provides the information for the death certificate within a day or two of the death. The actual document may not be recorded for days, weeks, or even months later (I have deaths that occurred in Oct/Nov that weren’t recorded until Jan. Many times they are waiting for the doctor to sign off on it). In this case going with the death date would be a much better bet. I pull residence info off of death certificates for the spouse and the informant. Were they still living there when the death certificate was actually recorded? Who knows. Having said that, if you did want to use the registration dates of vital documents (or publication dates of obits etc.) just make sure that you do it consistently :) Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com From: robs_familytree . [mailto:robs_familyt...@hotmail.ca] Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 9:41 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Dates Hi Sherry and Michele: Leo's question about dates has me thinking, and I'm curious about your answers. For the example below: Name: Bob Smith Born: December 1, 2013 Father: John Smith Occupation: Farmer Residence: Toronto, Ontario Registered by John Smith / Father Date Registered: December 10, 2013 I can see December 1 as the date of the event itself. But because the event was not registered the same day as the birth, would it not be truer to assume that the Occupation and Residence of the father was probably "as of" December 10, the registration date? Or am I too focused on minutia? Thanks very much, Rob Miller Toronto, ON 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
