You could create a "Flourished" event/fact to record the period/date
during which the person was alive.
Cheers, Brett
B McL Robinson
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PO Box 1252, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
On 2/11/2022 6:26 am, John Cardinal wrote:
I would not be in favor of that as a /date /term. It’s not a modifier
of the date, like “before”, “after”, or “between”. It’s an
abbreviation of a past-tense verb, like “born”, “died”, “lived”, etc.,
and those are not date terms. You see born, died, etc., in phrases,
such as a lifespan, but those verbs are not part of the date, they are
a peer to the date where, for example, “born” answers “what?” and the
date answers “when?”.
I wouldn’t object to “fl” if used to indicate a minimum lifespan when
no evidence has been found for birth or death, but there are other
ways of indicating that, and those methods are widely supported, such
as using “bef <date>” in a birth event when you have date evidence
from another event.
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*From:* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> *On
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*Sent:* Tuesday, November 1, 2022 9:55 AM
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*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] TR: Duplicate
Would it be possible to accept the abbreviation *fl* in the date field?
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/Floruit/
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
*/Floruit/* (/ˈflɔːrju.ɪt/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English>; abbr. *fl.* or
occasionally *flor.*; from Latin
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language> /floruit
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floruit#Latin>/ 'he/she flourished')
denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been
alive or active.^[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit#cite_note-OELD-1>[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit#cite_note-AH-2> In English,
the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun> indicating the time when someone
flourished.^[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit#cite_note-OELD-1>
Etymology and use[edit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floruit&action=edit§ion=1>]
Latin <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language>: /flōruit/ is the
third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb
/flōreō/, /flōrēre/ "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun
/flōs/, /flōris/, "flower".^[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit#cite_note-3>[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit#cite_note-AH-2>
Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for
a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy> and historical writing when
a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence
exists that indicates when they were alive.^[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit#cite_note-Adeleye-4> For
example, if there are wills <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_(law)>
attested <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attestation_clause> by John
Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a
record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)".
The term is often used in art history
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_history> when dating the career of
an artist. In this context, it denotes the period of the individual's
artistic activity.^[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit#cite_note-5>
In some cases, it can be replaced by the words "active between
/[date]/ and /[date]/", depending on context and if space or style
permits.
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