They BOTH should be using the Standard that is in use by the English and Welsh registry.
They should NOT be making their OWN standard. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Ron Bernier [mailto:ronaldbern...@bernfrin.net] Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2014 7:04 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Quarter dates Why not "lobby" Ancestry to change their formatting to conform to Legacy's standard. Why should it be Legacy's responsibility to conform to Ancestry's format? Ron Bernier On Saturday, April 12, 2014, Bob Austen <rgaus...@telus.net> wrote: Legacy does a marvelous job of ‘cleaning up’ date entries. However, an English (?) Quarter date must be entered [month] Q [year]. Legacy says that Jan-Mar 1876 is a date range (I agree) but also suggests that Jan-Feb-Mar 1876 is a date range, where others (Ancestry for one) accept this format as a ‘Quarter’ date (Legacy’s Mar Q 1876). You can’t enter Jan-Feb-Mar 1876 as a date in Legacy as it will simply be deleted without warning – that part is due to be corrected but it will be treated as a ‘bad date’. Why is it a ‘bad date’? Ancestry have recently started using yet another format ‘1876 – Jan-Feb-Mar’ which, of course, is also a valid way to show an English quarter date and as such should be allowed as a ‘good date’ by Legacy but is currently being trapped incorrectly as a ‘bad date’. I do a lot of copy/paste from Ancestry and always have to change their quarter date to suit Legacy’s criteria for input. I was looking for an enhancement to convert the entry of Jan-Feb-Mar 1876 to Mar Q 1876. This would be a simple programming change. Instead, they have chosen to change the programming to make it a ‘bad date’ rather than make it a ‘good date’. Am I alone in this idea for an enhancement? If there is anyone else on the LUG that would think this to be an improvement I hope you would chime in… perhaps we can get Legacy to make a minor change to an already great program. Bob A -- Ron Bernier, Woonsocket, RI 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 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
