I don't know what others consider about as, but use it when I for example see an age given in a census. In the 1801 census I use for Norway age is often given and if it say someone is x years old, it migt often mean they were born x+1 or x-1 year so I use about. Also if I in the marriage record find the age of bride and groom, the groom I have the birthdate for, and it fits with the age at marriage and the wife is x years older or younger than the grrom, but I have no ideas of when she was born, except for example that she is 3 years younger than the grom, I would use about for her age.
Anne -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of JV Leavitt Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 4:38 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update Does anyone know what the term "About" means when used with a date? Everyone seems to have a different idea about the level of credibility to give it. Many think it must be within a few years, and don't think of it as being a wild guess (which so often turns out to be the case), but I'm not alone in thinking of it as a wild guess, which means it might be 10 to 50 years off. I never use the term About for a date, but would rather use the term Estimated or Est. Better than that, of course, when only an age is given in a source, is to use the term Calculated, or cal. Calculated as a term for a date can properly be seen as having much more credibility than the term Estimated. Unfortunately, the term Estimated is sometimes being used for a date when it was derived from a calculation based on age. I sincerely wish they wouldn't do that. I'm very disappointed that the term Estimated or Est is not included in Legacy's Date Prefix options. Joseph Leavitt On 7/7/2017 1:00 PM, Lucy Abbott wrote: > OK, had not thought of setting up the Gedcom from Ancestry, changing > all the Est to Abt, doing the same with my existing Legacy file before > doing the merge. Not exactly what I want but it would work and save time. > > Never done a search and replace but going to make a duplicate file and > try this on existing Legacy file. > > Your comments on making my Gedcom a Text file have me confused. I > normally just ask Ancestry to make a Gedcom, did not know I should > make some adjustment to it or that I could even do something > different. Feel free to email me directly with some help on this if > you would. > > Thx for the solution for the changing of the files, really appreciate. > Lucy Abbott > Mill Creek, WA, USA > > > On Monday, July 3, 2017 4:28 PM, "J.M. "Jay" Ingalls" > <jay_inga...@pipeline.com> wrote: > > > Lucy Abbott, > > Remember to save the file as PLAIN text with the ".ged" file > extension, or it will include "garbage" you do not want from what I > have been told in the past. > > Jay Ingalls > > > On 7/3/2017 3:51 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > > On 03-Jul-17 07:59 PM, Lucy Abbott wrote: > >> > >> Give me an option here that I can use. I want to stay with Est > >> because there is no way that I know of to change all the ones on > >> Ancestry and I had planned on downloading a Gedcom and merging that > >> file with my Legacy file once I have done all the research at that > >> site. Without this correction, many more hours will need to be used > >> on the merge. My merge is scottish names and 60% are duplicate type > >> names due to naming conventions so hours and hours are needed for > >> the merge and this has me frustrated thinking of how many more > >> hours will be needed to change the dates headings. > > > > If it turns out that you DO have to change "est" to something else, > > it needn't take hours. If you open your Gedcom as a Legacy file you > > could use the Search & Replace function to change all the instances > > of "est" in each Date field. Granted, not a single-step option, but > > wouldn't take too long. In fact, a Gedcom being text file I think > > you could probably do the Search & Replace in the Gedcom with WP > > program.) > > > > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.co > m > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > > > -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
